Like many other ITIL instructors, I spend a fair amount of my time teaching certification classes. That said, keep in mind that for ITIL implementations to work, it requires the right combination of people, process, and technology. Can your teams effectively leverage your tools and processes to support a workflow that delivers sustained, aligned services? Most of the skills gaps I see are around bridging process silos…making sure inputs, outputs, and triggers are understood, managed, and automated where possible to facilitate incident and problem identification and diagnosis, coordinate transition activities, or align customer service requirements to achievable performance targets.
Tag: Training
Certification training vs tools
A number of our customers are struggling with how to implement training programs to support their service management initiative. Many approach the training need from a tools point-of-view. In other words, train them on using the Change management tools, not on the process itself. While understanding how to effectively leverage and use your tools is critical, understanding the context of the work in supporting your services is the critical link. What are the proper triggers, inputs, and outputs of the process? What are the dependency relationships between your process activities and that of other processes? How does what is happening in your functional group impact other groups?
We recommend at a minimum some core understanding of the Service Lifecycle and the role the different processes play in modeling, planning, transitioning, supporting, and improving services BEFORE the tools training. Otherwise, people will “fill in the boxes” to “get the work done” without the right level of quality or value capture in their documentation. Ultimately you are at risk of reduce quality and service availability without this core understanding.