Advancing digital transformation is a top priority for today’s enterprises. Providing business and technology leaders with new tools to support this effort, ISACA’s new publication, COBIT Focus Area: DevOps, offers guidance based on COBIT 2019 to optimize governance and management practices for enterprises implementing DevOps.
COBIT Focus Area: DevOps provides tailored guidance specific to the governance and management system components relevant to DevOps. The global digital transformation drive has created a demand for effective and efficient development and delivery of software products, services and solutions. This publication outlines the concepts and guidance that DevOps teams can adopt and practitioners in risk and assurance can consider to help ensure the benefits of DevOps are realized while potential risk is mitigated. DevOps Focus Area benefits include:
- Establishing alignment of DevOps with enterprise goals and strategic objectives
- Integrating DevOps with the enterprise architecture
- Understanding of governance and management systems applicable to DevOps
- Providing a consistent governance and management framework and system related to DevOps
The publication offers a detailed overview and description of COBIT roles and organizational structures, COBIT terminology and key concepts, highlighting the components of a governance system and COBIT governance and management objectives as they pertain to DevOps. It also includes a goals cascade mappings table.
COBIT Focus Area: DevOps is available to ISACA members in a digital format for US$50 and in print for US$60. For non-members, the digital format is available for US$90 and the print version is US$100. The publication is available at https://store.isaca.org/s/store#/store/browse/detail/a2S4w000004Ko9dEAC.
The COBIT 2019 framework publications can be downloaded free of charge at https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit.