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’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

Analyzing the Three Governance Framework Principles

Based on 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 organizational 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 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 organizations
• 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?