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.