ITIL® 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support (CDS)

Course overview

ITIL 4 takes a holistic approach to building and modifying technology-enabled services from demand to value. The Create, Deliver and Support (CDS) course is about utilizing service management, adapting and adopting best practices, and using the ITIL service value system (SVS) framework to facilitate value co-creation in organizations. The CDS course provides practical guidance for those who work within the broad scope of technology-enabled services. CDS also provides clear guidance on how to collaborate and coordinate efforts to design, build, and support integrated and effective products and services, building from ITIL Foundation.

ITIL 4 Create, Deliver and Support also addresses the cultural and team management aspects of product and service management, provides an overview of the tools and technologies which support service management, and demonstrates how to integrate management practices into end-to-end value streams. It is one of three ITIL 4 Specialist publications and is part of the requirements to complete the ITIL 4 Managing Professional designation.

Course objectives

Create, Deliver and Support (CDS) provides candidates with an understanding on how to integrate different value streams and activities to create, deliver and support ITenabled products and services, as well as how to apply relevant practices, methods and tools. The course prepares candidates for the PeopleCert ITIL 4 Specialist Create, Deliver and Support formal examination. The official course syllabus outlines the following three categories:

• Understand how to plan and build a service value stream to create, deliver and support services
• Know how relevant ITIL practices contribute to creation, delivery and support across the SVS and value streams
• Know how to create, deliver and support services