C H A P T E R 5
IT Governance Decisions
At its core, IT governance is about assigning decision-rights and decision-making accountability. There are the following three major decision-related aspects to consider:
- What decisions will be governed?
- Who will be assigned accountability for governing those decisions?
- How will those decisions be governed?
The first major question to answer is what decisions will be governed. For many organizations I have encountered, IT governance only addresses technology investment decisions. In these enterprises, IT governance is synonymous with project and portfolio management (PPM). This would not be such a bad phenomenon because all things being equal, there are no better decisions to govern than those ...
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