Introduction to IT Governance

Overview

• Triggers for the current focus on Governance
• Defining Corporate and IT Governance
• Placing IT Governance in an overall Governance framework

IT Governance Drivers

• Key drivers for improved IT Governance
• Industry responses
• The need for a unifying framework

Defining the CobiT Framework

Overview of CobiT

• The purpose of CobiT
• CobiT's target audience
• CobiT's history

Exploring CobiT's four perspectives

• The Financial Perspective
• Focusing on the Customer Perspective
• Learning and Growth
• The Internal Perspective

CobiT's key concepts

• Linking business goals and IT goals
• Linking IT goals and information criteria
• Linking IT goals and processes

Measuring IT Governance

• Using Balanced Scorecards
• Maturity Models and their application
• Using the RACI matrix

Examining CobiT's Scope and Structure

Defining the key business requirements for IT

• Ensuring effectiveness
• Delivering information efficiently
• Maintaining confidentiality
• Integrity of information
• Availability of information
• Achieving compliance
• Reliability

The four IT resource areas

• Planning and Organising
• Acquiring and Implementing
• Delivering and Supporting
• Monitoring and Evaluating

The four process domains:

• Applications
• Information
• Infrastructure
• People

Navigating the CobiT Framework

• Process descriptions
• Control objectives
• Inputs and outputs
• Using RACI charts
• Defining goals and metrics
• Using maturity models
• Supporting CobiT information

In-depth Examination of information

• Content and presentation of information
• CobiT's use of RACI charts and information matrices
• Focus areas

CobiT's Relationship with other Methodologies

• The relationship with ITIL^®
• PRINCE2^®
• Considering APM and PMBOK^® Guide
• ISO/IEC 17799 and ISO 38500

Practical Application of CobiT

• Additional ITGI information
• CobiT's guidance for implementation of a governance framework