DURATION: 3 days (~24 hours)
COURSE INTRODUCTION
CITM/ CITS is the second course in the EPI IT Training Framework. The CITM/ CITS course is aligned with competence level-3 (Sr Professional / Manager) of the e-CF. CITS is a 3-day course designed to teach the skills, knowledge and competencies required of the modern IT specialist working at the senior professional, team-leader, supervisor or management level in IT management. Candidates who successfully complete the course and pass the CITS exam will be awarded the globally recognised CITS credential. This will prove that they have gained the competences required to supervise/lead/manage IT teams successfully, and deliver added value to their organisations.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
After finish the course, student will have knowledges and skills to:
- Provide guidance and implementation for IT strategy as set by senior IT and business management
- Select and manage staff, implement training programs, career plan development and job rotation programs
- Select, evaluate and negotiate vendors using RFI, RFP and selection criteria
- Provide guidance for developing, testing and implementing business applications
- Manage and/or assist in IT project management
- Design and implement service management processes for incident, problem and change management
- Understand the need for business continuity and design the business continuity plan
- Review and implement information security practices and controls
- Assist and initiate risk management practices
- Understand and select new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things and social media to support business change demands
- Select strategies for information management
- Measure and improve quality of IT services
AUDIENCE
This course is most suited for IT professionals who have a need to understand the current requirements and core competences for managing IT in mission-critical environments. It is best suited for participants who have between two and four years of actual working experience in IT, with knowledge of systems, network and/or applications, service desk operations and/or IT professionals working in the position of team leader/supervisor/ manager in any area of IT. This includes those individuals working in the field of sales and consultancy with solution providers.
PREREQUISITES
To gain the most from this course, the participant should have two to four years of actual working experience in IT.
RELATED COURSES
CITP - Certified IT Professional
CITE - Certified IT Expert
COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
After finish the course, student will receive completion certificate issued by SmartPro.
Attendees passing the exam will be awarded the internationally accredited and recognized Certified IT Specialist certificate (CITS). CITS is world-wide accredited by EXIN.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: IT Strategy
- The need for Information Technology
- Enterprise architecture
- Service catalogue
- Service level management
- Sustainable development
Module 2: IT Organisation
- Personnel need
- Roles and responsibilities
- Sourcing
- Selection process
- Hiring staff
- Managing staff
- Career planning
- Training / job rotation
- Performance appraisal
- Staff departures
Module 3: Vendor Selection / Management
- The importance of vendors
- Vendor selection
- Request For Information (RFI)
- Request For Proposal (RFP)
- Proposal evaluation
- Vendor reference checks
- Contract negotiation
- Contract management
- Vendor management
- Re-compete vendors
Module 4: Project Management
- Methodologies
- Project organisation
- Starting up / initiating
- Planning / initiation a project
- Risk
- Quality
- Scope
- Work / Product Breakdown Structure
- PERT diagram / Gantt chart
- Cost
- Communication
Module 5: Application Management
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
- Requirements
- Development
- Testing
- Adoption (implementation)
- Maintenance
Module 6: Service Management
- Incident management
- Problem management
- Change management
Module 7: Business Continuity Management
- Standards and guidelines
- Objectives
- Context
- Interested parties
- Scope
- Roles and responsibilities
- Resources and competences
- Awareness and communication
- Documentation
- Business Impact Analysis
Module 8: Risk Management
- Guidelines
- Context establishment
- Identification
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Treatment
- Communication
- Monitoring and control
Module 9: Information Security Management
- Standards
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Controls types
- Guideline for controls selection
- Control categories
- Information security awareness
- Security incident response
Module 10: Information and Knowledge Management
- Information management
- Data management
- Information management - technologies
- Business intelligence
- Data management - technologies
- Best practices in data governance
- Pitfalls in data governance
Module 11: Business Change Management
- Business change
- Frameworks, models and techniques
- Needs identification
- Cloud computing
- Social media / digital marketing
- Big data
- Internet of Things (IoT)
Module 12: Quality Management
- Standards, guidelines and frameworks
- Objectives
- Activities
- Services review
- Customer feedback
- Customer survey
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Metrics
- Scorecards and reports
- Quality register
EXAM: Certified IT Specialist