PeopleCert Price Increase

PeopleCert is increasing the price of all 4 Managing Professional exams $100.  The increase begins on December 20, 2023.  If you or your associates plan to take any of the Managing Professional courses in 2024, order now.

How to Beat the Price Increase

Because PeopleCert exams are valid for 1-year from the date of purchase, you can purchase now and take the exam anytime in the next 12 months.

And that’s not all – When you purchase this month you will lock in the 2023 exam price and receive a $300 Holiday Discount.

GogoTraining Holiday Discount

When you purchase your ITIL 4 Managing Professional course & exam package this month (December 2023) you will save an extra $300/package.

This offer is valid on all ITIL 4 Managing Professional courses as follows:

• Create, Deliver & Support – Must Purchase Before 12/18/23
• Drive Stakeholder Value – Available December 2023
• High Velocity IT – Available December 2023
• Direct, Plan & Improve – Available December 2023

REMEMBER – PeopleCert exam vouchers and GogoTraining courses are valid for 1-Year.  When you purchase them you have 1-year from the date of purchase to take the exam.

Buy Today & Train Anytime in 2024!

Have questions?  Need to train your team?  Contact us or Call us at 877.546.4446.

PeopleCert announced to ATO’s last week that they will be increasing the price of the ITIL 4 Managing Professional and the Strategic Leader Digital & IT Strategy exams.

• Create, Deliver & Support increases on December 20, 2023
• Direct, Plan & Improve increases on January 9, 2024
• Drive Stakeholder Value, High Velocity IT and Digital & IT Strategy will increase Q1 2024.

PeopleCert Exam Price by Region – Click Here to find your region

• Region 1 – Going from $760 to $860
• Region 2 – Going from $742 to $830
• Region 3 – Going from $548 to $617

***Remember***

Exams are valid for 1-year from date of purchase.  If you or your organization need to get certified in 2024, purchase before the price goes up.  We are here to help.  Contact US or call us at 877.546.4446 for end-of-the-year special offers.

The ITIL 4 Managing Professional certification path is focused on how to run successful IT enabled services, teams and workflows.  It was created to help IT Practitioners who work in technology and support digital teams across the business.  The path consists of 4 courses, and we are often asked the best order to take the courses so here is some great input by course author Dr. Suzanne Van Hove.  We hope you find this helpful and look forward to hearing from you.

1. ITIL 4 Strategist:  Direct, Plan and Improve (DPI) – DPI is a great starting point because it starts you, as the provider, on the strategic thinking/governance piece.
2. ITIL 4 Strategist:  Drive Stakeholder Value (DSV) – DSV then focusses on the customer journey – understanding what the customer wants/needs and addressing those requirements.
3. ITIL 4 Strategist:  Create, Deliver & Support (CDS) – CDS then looks at the processes to create, deliver and support the service.
4. ITIL 4 Strategist:  High Velocity IT (HVIT) – HVIT focusses on how disrupting technologies can be exploited/included in your design.

In my mind, HVIT should be taken last if only due to the heavy focus on technology.  When designing a service, the focus should be on meeting the needs of the consumer and provider. If you already have a great customer focus, then you can jump into HVIT.  Just remember it is the hardest and most intense of the four Managing Professional courses with much memorization of tables included.

~Dr. Suzanne Van Hove

This Holiday Season, GogoTraining is giving away 1 ITIL 4 Managing Professional course per person.  If you are interested in getting ITIL 4 Certified, Contact Us Today and let us know which ITIL 4 course you would like to receive at no charge.

Please note that PeopleCert, the ITIL Exam Institute, requires students to purchase the exam voucher for their ITIL courses before they are granted access to the course.  To assist our students, we are offering exam discounts up to $200 depending on the exam required.

To find out more, Contact Us Today.

Wishing you the Happiest of Holidays and best wishes for the New Year ahead.

If you were wondering, it’s true.  Project Managers can benefit directly from three of the new ITIL 4 courses.  If you are interested in benefiting from this intersection and advancing your career this article is here to help guide your path.

Background

ITIL 4 starts with Foundation and then branches into advanced 2 paths:  (1) The Managing Professional Path and (2) The Strategic Leader Path.  Both paths have courses that map to the Project Managers Mission.

#1 ITIL 4 Strategic Leader

The course with the highest level of intersection, where Project Management is “testable” is found in the Strategic Leader Path.  The course, Digital & IT Strategy (DITS), is the Strategic Leader capstone course.  It is designed for Managers and requires a minimum of 3 years management experience.

• DITS focuses on the importance and challenges of creating an appropriate digital strategy to enable success across departments and organizations.
• It also looks at how the digital business strategy can (and should) be integrated into the IT strategy and aligned with the wider organization’s goals.
• Students apply the concepts via 4 graded assignments which are required in order to take the certification exam.

How to Become an ITIL 4 Strategic Leader

In order to achieve the Digital & IT Strategy Certification (DITS), candidates need to have achieved the ITIL 4 Foundation and ITIL 4 Direct, Plan & Improve Certifications and have a minimum of 3-year management experience.  Prerequisite classes include:  ITIL 4 Foundation and ITIL 4 Direct, Plan and Improve (DPI).

#2 ITIL 4 Managing Professional

The other two courses are found in the ITIL 4 Managing Professional Track.  This track consists of 4 courses of which 2 of them are highly recommended for Project Managers:

• Direct, Plan & Improve (DPI) – This class as it focuses on the governance and strategy requirements necessary to deliver improved/new/changed services, etc. It’s one that is most like some of the context of Project Management.
• Drive Stakeholder Value (DSV) – This class discusses the stages of the customer journey and how to manage each stage.

What’s Left?

The other two courses in the Managing Professional track include Create, Deliver & Support (CDS) and High Velocity IT (HVIT).  These classes are more IT specific and look at how to manage service design and support, and how to exploit the various disruptive technologies.  The intersection is not as strong for Project Managers, but just in case you are interested, here are the details:

• Create, Deliver & Support (CDS) – This course talks about the creation of services using the service value chain and operational support.
• High Velocity IT (HVIT) – This course is the most technical (digital technology), and focuses on the five objectives of HVIT (valuable investments, fast development, resilient operations, co-creating value, and assured conformance) and the methods to fulfill these objectives.

If you have any questions or we can help in any way – Contact US or Call US at 877.546.4446