COBIT® 2019 Foundation Training

COBIT® 2019 Foundation Course Outline

• 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

• Analysing the Six Governance Principles

  Provide stakeholder value

  • Benefits realisation
  • Risk and resource optimisation
  • Supporting the creation of business value through IT
  • Transforming stakeholder needs into an enterprise's 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

• Analysing the Three Governance Framework Principles

  Based on conceptual model

  • Identifying key components
  • Relationships between key components
  • Maximising 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
     

  Organisational structures

  • Implementing practices for operations, responsibility delegation and decision-making
  • The key responsibilities of key organisational roles
     

  Culture, ethics and behaviour

  • Creating, encouraging and maintaining desired behaviours
  • Relating organisational 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

  • Analysing the five architecture 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 in relation to the process domains

• Performance Management with COBIT 2019

  Performance Management Principles

  • Simple to understand and use
  • Consistent with conceptual model
  • Providing reliable, repeatable, relevant results
  • Flexible to suit different organisations
  • Supporting multiple assessment types
     

  Managing performance of processes

  • CMMI-based process capability scheme
  • The six process capability levels
  • Focus area maturity levels

  Managing 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?