COBIT 4.1 refines and fine-tunes the material presented in COBIT 4.0—the first major update of the COBIT core content since the release of COBIT 3rd Edition in 2000. COBIT 4.1 includes guidance for boards of directors and all levels of management. It consists of four sections in a single publication:
• The executive overview
• The framework
• The core content (IT process description, control objectives, management guidelines and maturity models)
• Appendices (mappings, cross-references and a glossary)

The core content is divided according to the 34 IT process. Each process is covered in four sections of approximately one page each, combining to give a complete picture of how to control, manage and measure the process. The four sections for each process, in order, are:
•The IT process description, which summarizes process goals, metrics and practices, and presents a mapping of the process to the process domains, information criteria and IT resources.
• The control objectives for the process
• Management guidelines: the process inputs and outputs, a RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and/or Informed) chart, goals and metrics
• The maturity model for the process

A reference card is included that contains the main reference diagrams from the COBIT 4.1 publication, including the domain/process overview diagram; the process mapping tables; business goals/IT goals/IT processes tables; relationship among processes, goals and metrics; and the COBIT products schematic.

COBIT 4.1 does not invalidate work done with COBIT 4.0 or COBIT 3rd Edition, but provides the opportunity to build on that work and further improve IT governance and control arrangements, where appropriate.



2007, 196 pages.