MasteringITFast!™ is an IT management system with the essential elements needed to structure the way you lead and run your small technology team.
Document processes. Leverage training. Properly configure tools. Create useful reports. Build improvement momentum.
Develop your management skills using a structured, hands-on learning approach that smooths the difficult transition from peer to manager.
The MasteringITFast system structures the management world, making a new manager’s skills journey more assured. No more experience gained piecemeal, or senior leaders too busy to nurture budding technical leaders.
Smaller organizations with limited resources can make improvements right – the first time – without costly trial-and-error and time-consuming mistakes.
Your organization can now:
MasteringITFast complements training and management books by providing implementation guidance. By helping you avoid common pitfalls, MasteringITFast will increase the likelihood of you successfully adopting the theory. You’ll own the subsequent great results just as if you had done it all yourself.
MasteringITFast combines the DIY benefits of reduced implementation cost, improved knowledge and greater solution ownership, together with the timely bespoke expertise you’d receive from a consultant at a fraction of their cost. Get results faster and more confidently, as you’re guided past small beginner mistakes and safely over big obstacles.
MasteringITFast incorporates the intellectual property (IP) from our many interventions as external experts and combines them into a single solution for the most common IT problems faced by organisations today. MIF combines a common streamlined approach with tailored coaching, so you avoid expensive consulting but still receive the bespoke advice you need to solve your specific problems.
We’ve taken the most widely taught and respected IT management frameworks, stripped them back, integrated them and laid out a fast-track adoption methodology called MasteringITFast!™.
MasteringITFast!™ helps technical people in smaller organizations build a lean yet robust IT management system using a modular approach.
MasteringITFast!™ complements formal accredited training by creating opportunities to apply learnings, cement knowledge and gain vital experience.
Technical people gain crucial management skills while the organization sees immediate improvements in IT and business performance, along with reductions in cost.
Organization capability lifts and business results improve rapidly.
Group coaching provides support and accountability, while sharing the expert costs.
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Participants own the system they build.
New technical managers gain valuable management experience.
Best-practice theory provided in timely nuggets, on-demand, as needed.
Guided implementation reduces delays and avoids mistakes.
The MasteringITFast system integrates eLearning, a private community forum, and online coaching into an entirely new experience.
With 12 modules that can be completed in as little as 90 days, new managers complete in-work assignments to build a best-practice management system, receiving peer feedback and full mentoring support throughout.
Combined with the Integrated Management System (IMS) of policy and procedure templates, the Roadmap (MAP) visual task management system, and the KPI assessment and measurement system, MIF brings your management adventure to life with instant progress and feedback.
MasteringITFast covers all the main aspects of great technology management: people, leadership, process, projects, agile, risk, value, financial and metrics. We start with the basics of service management processes.
Our pioneering MasteringITFast!™ helps you build a complete IT management system as a series of “Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)” starting with:
Tap into the world’s most powerful team method for Change Management
Learn the 3 secrets of persuasion to launch Problem Management
Practice the 5 essential ingredients of Process Control on Incident Management
Avoid the 4 pitfalls when starting Configuration Management
With each Module you will have access to:
A set of online Video lessons to review around a main topic.
A management assignment you conduct with your team and managers.
A group coaching session for as long as you still have questions or need help.
Online private forum to get peer support and expert review.
Forms, reports, flowcharts, presentations speed up creation of key artefacts.
A simple list of tasks to be completed with links to templates, lessons and your mentor.
Visualise progress in real-time as you complete work and your performance improves.
As Individuals Plus:
Dean Toovey has spent 30 years working at a junior and middle management level, leading small teams in the adoption of best-practice methods for operations, software development, risk, security, continuity, strategy and governance. With a background in engineering and software, plus a love of story, Dean is a very engaging coach who loves being hands-on. Dean designed the MasteringITFast™ system with the resourcing challenges of small businesses and local government in mind.
The Beta program will be delivered over 8 weeks with each module including:
We are looking for expressions of interest from individuals and organisations who think they can benefit from applying the MasteringITFast!™ system and are willing to contribute energy and feedback to its evolution.
We don’t accept just anyone because we need collaborators who are most likely to succeed and therefore help prove that MasteringITFast!™ works, and quickly.
MasteringITFast!™ integrates core elements of ITIL, Scrum, COBIT, ISO standards, business analysis and agile project management. You need to have the time, resources and inclination to adopt one or more of these frameworks into your organisation.
