Key Concepts and Terminology of COBIT 2019
- Structure and format of the COBIT 2019 framework
- Key stakeholders of COBIT 2019
- Business benefits provided by COBIT 2019
Analyzing the Six Governance Principles
Provide stakeholder value
- Benefits realization
- Risk and resource optimization
- Supporting the creation of business value through IT
- Transforming stakeholder needs into an enterprise actionable strategy
- Clarifying the purpose of the goals cascade
- Translating high-level enterprise goals into specific IT-related goals
Holistic approach
- Evaluating the key components of a governance system
Dynamic governance system
- Creating a dynamic governance system
Governance distinct from management
- Distinguishing between governance and management in an enterprise
- Relationships between governance and management
Tailored to enterprise needs
- Using design factors to produce an enterprise-specific governance system
- Using COBIT variants to tailor for a specific purpose or context
End-to-end governance system
- A framework for business and IT leaders
- Interrelating key roles and activities
Analyzing the Three Governance Framework Principles
Based on a conceptual model
- Identifying key components
- Relationships between key components
- Maximizing consistency and allowing automation
Open and flexible
- Updating content
- Addressing new issues
- Maintaining integrity and consistency
Aligned to major standards
- Alignment between COBIT and related standards, frameworks, and regulations
The Governance System and Components
COBIT 2019 Core Model
- The forty governance and management objectives
- The five-domain structure
Principles, policies, procedures
- Meeting good practice requirements for the scope, compliance, exceptions, and monitoring
- Differentiating policies, principles, and procedures
Processes
- Reviewing the key characteristics of the process goal categories
Organizational structures
- Implementing practices for operations, responsibility delegation, and decision-making
- The key responsibilities of key organizational roles
Culture, ethics, and behavior
- Creating, encouraging, and maintaining desired behaviors
- Relating organizations and individual ethics with goals
Information
- Reviewing the information quality categories
- Interrelating the five steps of the information cycle with the information enablers
- Applying information attributes to layers.
- Assessing context and quality of information to the user with key attributes
Services, infrastructure, and applications
- Analyzing the five architectural principles that govern the use of IT-related resources
- Relationship with the other enablers
People, skills, and competencies
- Defining skill requirements for each role
- Mapping the skill categories to the process domains
- Skill categories about the process domains
Performance Management with COBIT 2019
Performance Management Principles
- Simple to understand and use
- Consistent with the conceptual model
- Providing reliable, repeatable, relevant results
- Flexible to suit different organizations
- Supporting multiple assessment types
Managing the performance of processes
- CMMI-based process capability scheme
- The six process capability levels
- Focus area maturity levels
Managing the performance of other components
Designing and implementing a tailored governance system
The design process
- Understanding the need for tailoring
- Using design factors and variants
- Stages and steps in the design process
The relationship between design and implementation
The COBIT 2019 seven-phase implementation approach
- What are the drivers?
- Where are we now?
- Where do we want to be?
- What needs to be done?
- How do we get there?
- Did we get there?
- How do we keep the momentum going?
