From the course: Learning COBIT
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 24,200 courses taught by industry experts.
Avoiding framework overload
From the course: Learning COBIT
Avoiding framework overload
- [Instructor] Most professional practices have frameworks, bodies of knowledge, and models to help them apply industry best practices. However, you should recognize that COBIT is not designed to work by itself. It's best applied when synchronized with some of the most relevant models in our industry. Have you ever been completely overwhelmed with all of the frameworks out there? When I was in charge of an IT infrastructure and operations team for a North American manufacturer, I was tasked with completely redesigning the IT department, which included technology, organizational structures, and processes. One of our consultants handed me a set of CDs. On those CDs was version two of the ITIL framework. This was great because I now had a framework that helped me organize my department by services, as well as designing the processes needed to support those services. I loved this framework, but it only focused on one area of…