Enabling Processes

Generic Guidance for Processes
CHAPTER 5
COBIT 5 PROCESS REFERENCE GUIDE CONTENTS
The activities in the detailed process descriptions describe the functional purpose of the process—what the process is
supposed to deliver. These will be different for every process, because every process has different process goals.
There is also guidance on how the process will be executed, i.e., generic guidance on how to build, execute, monitor and
improve the process itself. This guidance is generic—identical for each process.
In COBIT 4.1, the process controls contained good practices that were not specific to any process, but were generic and
applicable to all processes. The process controls were similar to some of the generic maturity attributes in the COBIT 4.1
maturity model.
In COBIT 5, an ISO/IEC 15504-compliant process capability assessment scheme is used. In this scheme, the capability
attributes belonging to the higher process capability levels describe how better and more capable processes can be built,
thus effectively replacing the COBIT 4.1 process controls.
This is important process-related guidance, and for that reason figure 12 contains a high-level overview of both
COBIT 4.1 process controls and their equivalent ISO/IEC 15504-based process capability attributes that are foundational
to good processes.
Figure 12—COBIT 4.1 Process Controls and Related ISO/IEC 15504 Process Capability Attributes
COBIT 4.1 Related ISO/IEC 15504 Process Capability Attributes
PC1 ������� ����� ��� ���������� PA 2.1 Performance management attribute
PC2 Process Ownership PA 2.1 Performance management attribute
PC3 Process Repeatability PA 3.1 Process definition attribute
PC4 Roles and Responsibilities PA 2.1 Performance management attribute
PA 3.2 Process deployment attribute
PC5 Policy, Plans and Procedures PA 2.1 Performance management attribute
PC6 Process Performance Improvement PA 2.1
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Performance management attribute
Process optimization attribute
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