Course Description:
Get a practical appreciation of how to apply COBIT 5 to specific business problems, pain points, trigger events and risk scenarios within the organization. Learn how to implement and apply COBIT 5 into your enterprise and how to effectively use it for client initiatives. Attendees will walk away with an appreciation of how to effectively use COBIT 5 for different organizational scenarios.
The course is supported by practical exercises and engaging case-based scenarios. Candidates learn how to apply the COBIT 5 continual improvement lifecycle approach to address requirements and establish and maintain a sustainable approach to governing and managing enterprise IT as “normal” business practice.
The course is available as a 2 or 3 day course. The third day is optional for the exam.
Course Topics:
● Positioning IT Governance
● Benefit Realization
● Risk Optimization
● Resource Optimization
● Environmental Factors
● IT Governance Frameworks
● Applying IT Governance
● Taking the First Steps
● Environment for IT Governance Implementation
● Roles and Responsibilities
● RACI Chart for Implementation
● Life-cycle Approach and Phases
● Pain Points and Trigger Events
● Continual Improvement, Change Enablement and Program Management
● What Are the Drivers?
● Drivers for IT Governance
● Key Role Players
● Tasks, Inputs and Outputs
● Challenges
● Root Causes
● Critical Success Factors
● Continual Improvement, Change Enablement and Program Management
● Where Are We Now? And Where Do We Want to Be?
● Root Causes for Overcoming Implementation Challenges
● Implementation Pitfalls
● Target Capability
● Identify Challenges
● Encouraging Management
● Defining Roles
● Planning and Scoping
● Continual Improvement, Change Enablement and Program Management
● What needs to be done? And How do we get there?
● Initiating the Program
● Success Factors
● Planning
● Getting Commitment
● Target Setting
● Availability of Key Roles
● Overcome Fear of Bureaucracy
● Continual Improvement, Change Enablement and Program Management
● Did we get there? And how do we keep the momentum going?
● Adoption by Role Players
● Demonstrating Benefits
● Using Momentum
● Continual Improvement, Change Enablement and Program Management
Learning Goals:
● How to analyze enterprise drivers
● Implementation challenges, root causes and success factors
● How to determine and assess current process capability
● How to scope and plan improvements
● Potential implementation pitfalls
Course Agenda:
Day 1
● Introduction
● Positioning IT Governance
● Break
● Taking the First Steps
● Assignment 1: Justifying IT Governance Improvement
● LUNCH
● What Are the Drivers?
● Break
● Assignment 2: Phase 1
● Where Are We Now? And Where Do We Want to Be?
Day 2
● Assignment 3: Phases 2 & 3
● Break
● What Needs to Be Done? And How Do We Get There?
● Assignment 4: Phases 4 & 5
● Lunch
● Did We Get There? And How Do We Keep the Momentum Going?
● Break
● Assignment 5: Phases 6 & 7
● Exam Preparation (optional)
● Evening Mock Exam (optional)
Day 3
● Exam Preparation: Self Study
● Break
● Exam
● Lunch
Who can Attend?
A wide range of IT auditors, IT managers, IT quality professionals, IT leadership, IT developers, process practitioners and managers in IT service providing firms, business managers.