ServiceNow Platform Implementation

Course Duration

3 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

ServiceNow Administration Fundamentals (SNAF) and practical ServiceNow administration experience are required. Familiarity with LDAP, CMDB, and Agile project management is helpful.

Course Description

This course teaches implementers, consultants, architects, and administrators how to implement the ServiceNow platform for an organization. Students learn to configure platform fundamentals, manage data, build integrations, automate processes, and follow implementation best practices to deliver a successful ServiceNow deployment.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize ServiceNow product offerings and associate customer needs with product offerings
• Identify the different Now Create phases
• Discover success packs and assets
• Describe a typical project flow and understand how the methodology fits

Course Outline

• Recognize ServiceNow product offerings and associate customer needs with product offerings
• Identify the different Now Create phases
• Discover success packs and assets
• Describe a typical project flow and understand how the methodology fits
• Lab 1.01 – Explore the Now Create Portal
• Initiate phase overview
• Explain roles and responsibilities
• Describe the current architecture
• Identify the implementation team
• Discover and prepare the Kick-Off meeting
• Activity – Kick-Off Meeting discussion
• Lab 2.01 – Create an Implementation Dashboard
• Explain Agile board and how to plan and track sprints and stories
• Practice various instance configuration tasks
• Integrate ServiceNow with a Directory Server to manage authentication and user data
• State how you can drive a high quality solution with Architectural and Technical governance
• Describe CSDM
• Import structured data into an instance using Transform Maps
• Lab 3.01 – Agile Planning and Tracking
• Activity – Class Discussion: Requirement Workshop
• Lab 3.02 – Security Admin Group Set up
• Lab 3.03 – Configure LDAP Authentication and Data Population
• Lab 3.04 -Configure CMDB and Load Data
• Lab 3.05 – Import Foundation Data
• Identify building blocks used in platform and custom applications
• Design solutions to maximize system quality attributes
• Use ServiceNow development tools to improve efficiency
• Explain deployment process and security operations for scoped vs. global applications
• Apply lessons learned to complete a mini-implementation
• Use Agile project management Sprints to segment and organize work