One mindset is that the project management process itself should be lead. You promote proactive project management by planning and evaluating relevant management initiatives – and by adapting the level of effort and the tools for the project’s degree of complexity. The entire book can be considered as a method with tools for such planning and evaluating the project management.Another mindset is that the project management is not only a task for the project managers. The project owners, the participants and other parties must also be proactively involved in the management process. Such co-management means that the analyses and plans created will become more relevant– and have more impact on the project process. The general tool for such an approach, as presented in this book, is to facilitate the management activities.The entire book is a supplement to the existing literature on project management. The new mindsets and methods promote the idea of being a more reflective project manager – and thereby gaining even more benefit from knowledge obtained from other books and from personal experiences.
The SIAM Professional Body of Knowledge (BoK) expands the description of service integration and management (SIAM) from the previously released SIAM Foundation BoK . The Foundation BoK is recommended reading before using this publication.The contents of the SIAM Professional BoK are the source material for the EXIN/BCS Service Integration and Management Professional (SIAM®P) certification.
The TOGAF 9 certification program is a knowledge-based certification program. It has two levels, leading to certification for TOGAF 9 Foundation and TOGAF 9 Certified, respectively. The purpose of certification to TOGAF 9 Certified is to provide validation that, in addition to the knowledge and comprehension of TOGAF 9 Foundation level, the Candidate is able to analyze and apply this knowledge. The learning objectives at this level therefore focus on application and analysis in addition to knowledge and comprehension.This Study Guide supports students in preparation for the TOGAF 9 Part 2 Examination, leading to TOGAF 9 Certified.This fourth edition is based on Version 3 of The Open Group Certification for People: Conformance Requirements (Multi-Level), and is aligned with the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2. It gives an overview of every learning objective for the TOGAF 9 Certified Syllabus beyond the Foundation level.
Summary The TOGAF 9 certification program is a knowledge-based certification program. It has two levels, leading to certification for TOGAF 9 Foundation and TOGAF 9 Certified, respectively. The purpose of certification to TOGAF 9 Certified is to provide validation that, in addition to the knowledge and comprehension of TOGAF 9 Foundation level, the Candidate is able to analyze and apply this knowledge. The learning objectives at this level therefore focus on application and analysis in addition to knowledge and comprehension.This Study Guide supports students in preparation for the TOGAF 9 Part 2 Examination, leading to TOGAF 9 Certified.This third edition contains minor updates to remove references to the TOGAF 8-9 Advanced Bridge Examination1 and also adds four bonus practice examination questions to Appendix B.It gives an overview of every learning objective for the TOGAF 9 Certified Syllabus beyond the Foundation level.
This is the official Pocket Guide for the TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2, from The Open Group. It is published in hard copy and electronic formats by Van Haren Publishing. The TOGAF Standard, a standard of The Open Group, is a proven Enterprise Architecture methodology and framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve business efficiency. It is the most prominent and reliable Enterprise Architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among Enterprise Architecture professionals. Those professionals who are fluent in the TOGAF approach enjoy greater industry credibility, job effectiveness, and career opportunities. The TOGAF approach helps practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment.
This pocket guide will introduce you to VeriSM key concepts and the VeriSM model and help you to understand how they can apply in your organization. VeriSM is an approach that offers value-driven, evolving, responsive, and integrated service management. VeriSM is designed to enable organizations and professionals understand how to create a flexible operating model using Governance, Service Management Principles and a Management Mesh to define, produce, provide and respond to consumer requirements for service.VeriSM is essential reading for anyone who works within a service organization. It will be of particular interest to:• Managers – who want to understand how to leverage evolving management practices;• Service owners and service managers – who need to bring their skills up to date and understand how service management has changed;• Executives – who are accountable for effective service delivery;• Graduates and undergraduates – who will be joining organizations and who need to understand the principles of service management.
Dit boek is ontwikkeld op basis van twee uitgangspunten. Ten eerste is het bedoeld als studieboek voor iedereen die zich op een degelijke wijze wil voorbereiden op het PRINCE2 Foundation examen, dan wel het PRINCE2 Practitioner examen. Duidelijk is aangeven welke tekst niet hoeft te worden bestudeerd voor het Foundation examen.Ten tweede is het een praktisch gebruikersboek voor iedereen die professioneel te maken heeft met projecten, waarbij al of niet gebruik wordt gemaakt van de methode PRINCE2. In dit boek wordt de procesgerichte aanpak van projectmanagement beschreven en worden de thema’s behandeld die daarbij nodig zijn. De inhoud van dit boek is afgestemd op PRINCE2® Editie 2017.Dat wil zeggen dat de beschrijving van de processen en thema’s is gebaseerd op deze methode, alsmede de terminologie. Kenmerkend voor PRINCE2 zijn de beheerste overgang van de ene naar de andere fase, de Business case als kern van een project en duidelijke afspraken over wie waarvoor verantwoordelijk is. Door het volgen van de methode wordt de beheersbaarheid en ook de slaagkans van projecten enorm vergroot. Bovendien maken een uniforme werkwijze en terminologie projecten beter vergelijkbaar, overdraagbaar en overzichtelijk.In dit boek worden abstracte begrippen of complexe beschrijvingen extra verduidelijkt door middel van casusteksten. Op deze manier wordt zo veel mogelijk een vertaling gemaakt van de theorie van PRINCE2 naar de praktijk. Er wordt tevens ruim aandacht besteed aan het toesnijden van de methode PRINCE2 naar de context van de verschillende projecten.Dit boek is op de volgende punten verbeterd ten opzichte van de eerste druk:– Expliciet onderscheid van de leerstof voor het PRINCE2 Foundation examen: De tekst die niet hoeft te worden bestudeerd voor PR2-Foundation, maar wel voor PR2-P is gemarkeerd door middel van een verticale streep in de kantlijn – Een groot deel van de tekst is herschreven, waardoor deze beter toegankelijk is en beter aansluit op de kennis en ervaring van de lezer.
This book is intended as a self-study guide for the VeriSM™ Foundation, VeriSM™ Essentials, and VeriSM™ Plus qualifications. It also supports classroom and online courses for these qualifications. It is based on the requirements of the syllabuses for these three qualifications (Certification requirements for the VeriSM™ Foundation, VeriSM™ Essentials, and VeriSM™ Plus, a publication of the IFDC – International Foundation for Digital Competence).This guide is also useful for all professionals and organizations involved in delivering value to customers through the development, delivery, operation and/or promotion of services. VeriSM™ Foundation, VeriSM™ Essentials and VeriSM™ Plus prove to be useful to both professionals at the very start of their service management career and also to experienced professionals who need access to a simple service management approach. It refers to the information contained in the VeriSM handbook, “VeriSM™ – A service management approach for the digital age” – published by Van Haren Publishing.This guide has been developed for anyone who works with products and services and will be of particular interest to: graduates and undergraduates, managers (who want to understand how to leverage evolving management practices), service owners and service managers (who need to bring their skills up to date and understand how service management has changed), executives and IT professionals (who need to understand the impact of evolving management practices and new technologies on their role).
VeriSM is a framework that describes a service management approach from the organizational level, looking at the end to end view rather than focusing on a single department. Based around the VeriSM model, it shows organizations how they can adopt a range of management practices in a flexible way to deliver the right product or service at the right time to their consumers. VeriSM allows for a tailored approach depending upon the type of business you are in, the size of your organization, your business priorities, your organizational culture – and even the nature of the individual project or service you are working on.Rather than focusing on one prescriptive way of working, VeriSM helps organizations to respond to their consumers and deliver value with integrated service management practices.Service management plays a leading role in digital transformation. Digital transformation looks outward; with a hyper-focus on the consumer experience. Service management can help shift the mindset from ’inside-out’ to ’outside-in’ by developing effective, transparent principles that help deliver services that are valuable to the customer. All organizational capabilities must understand: – How does the organization enable and deliver value?– What are the supply chains within an organization that support value delivery?– How do the individual capabilities contribute to or support these supply chains to deliver value?
The ArchiMate® Specification, an Open Group Standard, defines an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. The ArchiMate language enables Enterprise Architects to describe, analyze, and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. This book is the official specification of the ArchiMate 3.0.1 modeling language from The Open Group. ArchiMate 3.0.1 is a minor update to ArchiMate 3.0, containing the set of corrections from ArchiMate 3.0 Technical Corrigendum No. 1 (U172). This addresses inconsistencies and errors identified since the publication of Version 3.0 in June 2016.The ArchiMate Specification supports modeling throughout the TOGAF® Architecture Development Method (ADM). New features in Version 3 include elements for modeling the enterprise at a strategic level, such as capability, resource, and outcome. It also includes support to model the physical world of materials and equipment. Furthermore, the consistency and structure of the language have been improved, definitions have been aligned with other standards, and its usability has been enhanced in various other ways.The intended audience is threefold: • Enterprise Architecture practitioners, such as architects (e.g., business, application, information, process, infrastructure, and, obviously, enterprise architects), senior and operational management, project leaders, and anyone committed to work within the reference framework defined by the Enterprise Architecture. • Those who intend to implement the ArchiMate language in a software tool; they will find a complete and detailed description of the language in this book. • The academic community, on which we rely for amending and improving the language, based on state-of-the-art research results in the Enterprise Architecture field.