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The difference between ITIL and COBIT for consultants: four words

skeptic — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:46:11 -0700

As a consultant, COBIT is my first-choice body of knowledge for my engagements. I go to it first* to assess, to frame, to define, to justify, to audit. I turn to ITIL second, when I need more detail, or when I need the authority of the holy of holies to justify what I suggest. There are two reasons for this:

COBIT 5: muddying governance and management

skeptic — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:48:47 -0600

Execution always falls short of expectation. I'm still pondering my impressions of COBIT5 - more on that later - but one thing is clear: they haven't fully fixed the governance/management thing. [Update: I didn't get this right, see comments below]

A study in governance: comparing Castle ITIL with ISACA

skeptic — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:40:17 -0600

It is always illuminating to use COBIT as a benchmark to study ITIL. In recent days, ISACA has announced another solid Board, whilst itSMF continues its infighting (see below), APMG expands its empire, TSO goes its own merry way unanswerable, and OGC tightens control over - and profit from - what everyone thought was public property (blog coming if I can ever unravel it all).

COBIT5 another step closer... to ITIL

skeptic — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:44:19 -0600

COBIT5 is coming along. The first(?) development workshop is over and the next is in August, not far away! For those of you who haven't got your head around the next generation of COBIT, you need to. I grow weary reiterating that COBIT is not for auditors. COBIT is good for management, governance-enablement, design, assessment... and audit. [COBIT is the first tool I reach for, not ITIL]. It is marching into ITIL's space with superior fire power. So wake up.

COBIT is a useful tool for much more than Audit

skeptic — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:36:47 -0600

When I presented my "layman's view of COBIT" to the local chapter of itSMF some time back, the main point I wanted to make was that COBIT has many practical uses - only one of them is audit. This is reflected in the changing makeup of the ISACA membership: auditors are now a minority.

COBIT 5 draft Design document available for public comment

skeptic — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:18:14 -0600

ISACA have published a draft design document of COBIT 5 for your comment. If you have an interest in IT management, ITSM or governance you should read it and provide feedback. Here's what I will be saying. What about you?

The true scope of service management and ITIL

skeptic — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:45:30 -0600

Service management is IT. It is a way of describing how to do IT - all of it. When it comes to the scope of service management in general and ITIL in particular, the IT Skeptic has had a change of mind. In the past I accused ITIL V3 of having aspirations beyond its station, of trying to take on areas where it has no business going, such as strategy, applications and security. I don't think so any more: now I just think ITIL did it half-heartedly, too anaemically to be taken seriously by areas of IT outside of IT Operations. But Service Management definitely should go there.

Response Management

skeptic — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:43:15 -0600

The more I think about it the more convinced I become that the way ITIL and COBIT and ISO20000 structure incident and request fails the basic test of being customer-focused or business-aligned.

ITIL-COBIT mapping shows even less coverage by ITIL

skeptic — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:00:53 -0600

Along the way, I've somehow never got around to discussing a very important paper: Aligning COBIT® 4.1, ITIL® V3 and ISO/IEC 27002 for Business Benefit. This is one of the official OGC Alignment White Paper Series that do the alignment between ITIL V3 and the other frameworks, that ITIL V3 should have done in the first place.

COBIT 5 taskforce - who will steer the next generation COBIT?

skeptic — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:50:50 -0600

ISACA have announced the members of their COBIT 5 taskforce, to develop the next generation COBIT.