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j. CobiT Quickstart

CobiT Quickstart is a simple-to-use tool that will speed up the implementation of key IT control objectives. CobiT Quickstart was developed for smaller organizations, but IT managers of larger organisations can also leverage this tool to ‘Quickstart’ the initial phases of a broader IT Governance implementation.

Description

CobiT is a comprehensive and complete set of resources, which contains the information that organisations require to adopt IT Governance and a control framework. Since CobiT Quickstart contains a subset of components and control objectives, it is an ideal guidance for IT managers of smaller organisations to implement IT Governance. It also facilitates the introduction of CobiT in larger organizations by making use of a customised and simplified subset of the CobiT components.
The objective of this training is to learn how to use the Quickstart, to make a first assessment of the maturity of the IT processes of an organization and to set priorities for developing the IT processes.
After this assessment, IT management can make use of the full CobiT or the CobiT Quickstart, depending on the size and criticality of IT for the business.

Objectives

Participants completing this training will be able to:
• Use the Quickstart Baseline to execute the assessment
• Choose a method for executing the assessment, that best fits the culture and constraints of your IT organization
• Set priorities on the CobiT processes and make a first selection to start the development and implementation
• Develop an approach to develop and implement the CobiT processes
• Give presentations to the Business Management to explain the importance and principles of IT Governance

Audience

• Strategy Planners, Auditors, Quality Managers, Risk Managers
• Top Executives and Managers (Business, IT and Facilities)
• Program, Portfolio or Project Managers, Change Managers
• IT Governance consultants

Content

The training contains the following topics:
1. Introduction
  • What is CobiT Quickstart? 
  • Difference with full CobiT
2. Cases Studies 
  • Different approach, communications & results 
  • Why to use Quickstart to launch IT Governance projects?
3. Method(s) used 
  • Approach for the Assessment 
  • How to get a decision about priorities 
   • How to set up the first projects?
4. CobiT Quickstart 
  • Use of the Suitability Assessment 
  • Questionnaire for the Assessment
5. Explanation of Projects executed 
  • Setup of an IT Business Steering Committee 
  • Develop Hand-over process from Development to Operations 
  • Business Process Modelling approach and results

Course material

The training material provided includes all presentation materials, notes and additional handouts. Examples of processes and presentations from the cases that will be presented.

Speaker

Greet Volders is Partner & Managing Consultant at Voquals and is specialized in CobiT, IT Governance and the development of (controls on) IT processes. Voquals was one of the pioneers in Belgium to provide CobiT trainings and to give advice in IT Governance, which has grown to one of the core businesses of Voquals. In addition, Voquals is also specialized in the optimization of internal processes conform to SOX and CMM.
Since 2002, Greet has been an active member in several development teams for CobiT and was part of the team who created CobiT Quickstart. In 2004, Greet became an accredited trainer for CobiT.

Other related trainings:

• IT Governance: Trends, Frameworks and Methodologies (1 day)
• Standardising IT Governance: ISO 38500 (1 day)
• SOA Governance and Best Practices (1 day)

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