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Audience

This course is designed for:

  • Business Executives responsible for IT Governance
  • Professionals and Managers of IT Service Providers
  • Risk and Security Practitioners
  • Auditors / Assurance Professionals
  • Quality Professionals
  • Consultants, Service Managers and Project Managers

Skills Gained

The objective of this course is for participants to gain a good solid understanding of COBIT 2019, specifically:

  • The context, benefits and key reasons why COBIT is used as an information and technology governance framework
  • Who in the organisation COBIT 2019 is aimed at
  • Descriptions and purposes of the COBIT product architecture
  • Components of a governance system
  • The governance “system” and governance “framework” principles
  • Alignment of COBIT with other applicable frameworks, standards and bodies of knowledge
  • The overall structure and contents of the Goals Cascade
  • How COBIT 2019 compares with COBIT5
  • Differentiate COBIT based performance management using maturity and capability perspectives
  • How to design a tailored governance system using COBIT
  • Describe the relationships between the COBIT Design and Implementation Guides
  • Explain the key points of the COBIT business case
  • Prepare for the COBIT 2019 Foundation exam

Outline

1. Introduction to COBIT 2019
  • Benefits of Enterprise Governance of IT
  • Attributes and benefits of COBIT 2019
  • Overview of the COBIT core and the updated COBIT 2019 product family
  • Major differences between COBIT 5 and COBIT 2019
2. COBIT Principles and Concepts
  • Six principles for a governance system
  • Three principles of a governance framework
3. Governance System and Components
  • Governance and management objectives
  • Components of a governance system and the key differences (formerly enablers)
    • Processes, Organisational structures
    • Principles / Policies / Frameworks
    • Information
    • Culture / Ethics / Behaviour
    • People / Skills / Competencies
    • Services / Infrastructure / Applications
  • Focus areas that describe governance topics
    • Small / medium sized businesses
    • Cybersecurityo Risks
    • DevOps
  • Design factors
  • Enterprise strategy
    • Enterprise goals
    • Risk profile
    • Enterprise size
    • Threat landscape
    • Regulatory requirements
    • Role of IT
    • Sourcing model for IT
    • IT implementation methods
    • Technology adoption strategy
  • COBIT goals cascade that supports the prioritisation of management objectives based on enterprise goals
4. Governance and Management Objectives
  • Overview of the COBIT core model and the 40 governance and management objectives
  • Purpose statements
  • Description of the governance components
  • Practices, related metrics and activities
  • Inputs and outputs
  • Practice capability levels
5. Performance management in COBIT
  • How the governance and management system and all the components of an enterprise work
  • Managing performance of processes – the capability levels (0-5) to measure how well a process is implemented and performing
  • Performance management guidance for assessing other governance system components – organisational structures, information items, culture and behaviour aspects
6. Designing a Tailored Governance System
  • The need for tailoring
  • Impact of design factors
  • Designing a tailored governance system
7. The COBIT Business Case
  • Making a case for getting started
  • Overview of the COBIT business case
  • Business case components
8. Implementing Enterprise Governance over IT
  • The implementation roadmap
  • Implementation phases
  • Design guide and Implementation Guide relationships
9. Preparation for the COBIT 2019 Foundation Exam
  • Tips and tricks
  • Review sample questions
10. Summary and Conclusion

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