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Up YOUR Game – Become a Certified Process Design Engineer!

I find that there are many people that do not understand WHAT a Certified Process Design Engineer (CPDE) really is (be sure to scroll down on the page and then download the free whitepaper for surprising details). The CPDE role is likely much broader and deeper than you might think!

Time and Money?! Yes, but not at the expense of quality and stability! 

The role of a Certified Process Design Engineer is a critical skill set for all IT service providers. There are many frameworks and standards that define practices and methods for achieving success; ITIL 4, Agile, Lean, DevOps, COBIT, ISO, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) are only a few. My point is that while each describes processes and controls (what to do), they don’t provide clear, step-by-step methods and techniques for designing, reengineering and improving processes (how to do it). 

A Certified Process Design Engineer equips managers and staff at all levels to lead the organization to do the “right” things but also leads them in the “right” direction with a strategic and tactical perspective. This class can be taken virtually, is highly interactive and results in YOU as a Certified Process Design Engineer! Take action NOW and help drive your organization to success!

Fast-moving fluid cross-functional teams today are given more autonomy. This does NOT mean that governance, regulatory and risk requirements go out the window! To ensure quality, mitigate risk and ensure success you might want to become a Certified Process Design Engineer. Did you know that you can apply Agile and Lean to process design/Agile Service Management (ASM)? Did you know that instrumenting and optimizing the DevOps pipeline depends on the architecture and orchestration of that pipeline? In comes the role of CPDE!

Certified Process Design Engineer – Role:

  • Achieve a comprehensive understanding of an organization's service management capabilities, level of maturity and improvement opportunities.
  • Identify, understand, evaluate, and promote the use of multiple integrated best practice frameworks and standards (understand and explore/gain knowledge).
  • Provide recommendations to leadership on matters involving the use of best practices, frameworks, and standards to meet business goals (lead organization in the right direction).
  • Assist with the development of processes, policies, and goals.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on matters involving process design improvement.
  • Work with development, project and process improvement teams to identify, justify and implement process improvement.
Survival today means that we must be responsive, move fast, deliver value and at the same time sustain a stable, antifragile environment. Brilliant process design ensures that we have “just enough” governance and "just enough" process to remain agile and move fast. 

Take Action Now! Become a Certified Process Design Engineer.

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