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Where's the COBIT 5 training?

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2013-03-13 20:40

Here we go again. COBIT 5 is hot: the industry itches to get using it. APMG is signed up to roll out the training programme. The ITIL V3 training courses faced a similar situation a few years back. The ITIL training courses (also administered by APMG) came out later than promised, much to the frustration of an industry busting to put it to work. Now we see the same thing again with COBIT 5. Rattle your dags, ISACA and APMG!

ISACA appoints Australian president

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2013-01-02 18:07

Following on from a Kiwi Chair of itSMF International, an Aussie takes the helm at ISACA. Australasians rock.

Breaking news: APMG to accredit COBIT5 training industry. Fort COBIT?

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2012-08-16 23:02

In a press release today, ISACA announced

Four new COBIT 5 training courses will be launched over the next five months as the result of a new partnership between ISACA and APMG-International.

COBIT 5 will be released in April

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2012-03-14 23:28

ISACA have announced to members that COBIT 5 will be released in "mid-April".

The release includes three publications:

  • COBIT 5 (Framework)
  • COBIT 5: Enabling Processes
  • COBIT 5 Implementation

...and a "toolkit", an undefined "set of resources". I smell spreadsheets.

Cost to ISACA members for the pdf version? Nada. Free. Suck on that Cabinet Office/TSO/itSMF.

And ISACA is providing a separate download server for members so as not to have to compete for bandwidth with the great unwashed masses.

How does OGCs MoV stack up against ValIT?

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2010-11-22 22:18

[Ooops I used the wrong licensing terms so part of this post has been deleted. Sorry about that, my mistake]

OGC have launched Management of Value™, another framework. It looks from the little information available to be comparable to ISACA's Val IT.

A study in governance: comparing Castle ITIL with ISACA

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2010-06-09 19:40

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).

Chalk and Cheese continued: ISACA vs itSMF

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2010-01-20 22:41

With a new itSMF Board meeting as we speak, perhaps it is salient to review what we got in 2009 as members of itSMF and ISACA, two similar-sized organisations with supposedly similar functions and similar annual membership fees. I've written before about how the two are chalk and cheese, and that remains true.

ITIL-COBIT mapping shows even less coverage by ITIL

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2009-10-05 09:00

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?

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2009-09-18 08:50

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

Memo to itSMF: this is how you run an organisation

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2009-09-17 20:33

I've blogged before about how ISACA and itSMF are chalk and cheese and how this shouldn't be so - we could be brothers. I'm reminded of this again with ISACA's Invitation to Participate. itSMF members read it and weep.

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