By the end
What you'll build
- Distinguish governance from management and describe how direction reaches delivery
- Translate a strategic goal into service portfolio decisions, including retirement
- Construct a business case with costs, benefits, risks and assumptions stated openly
- Apply a risk register and control set to an IT decision
- Evaluate an investment portfolio and defend a prioritisation to a governing body
- Explain how policy, standards and controls produce the evidence assurance work relies on
Curriculum
What's inside
7 modules · 41 lessons
- 01
Governance and management
6 lessons- Direct, monitor, evaluate: what a governing body actually does
- Delegation, mandate and accountability
- Policy, standard, procedure and guideline
- Committees that decide versus committees that watch
- Reporting upward without hiding bad news
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Strategy into portfolio
6 lessons- Translating a strategic goal into portfolio decisions
- Portfolio, pipeline and catalogue
- Investing in, sustaining and retiring services
- Demand against the capacity of the delivery organisation
- Saying no with a reason people can accept
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Business cases and value
6 lessons- Building a business case that states its own assumptions
- Cost types and total cost of ownership
- Benefit realisation and who owns the benefit
- Options analysis, including doing nothing
- Revisiting a case after approval
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Risk and control
6 lessons- Turning an IT risk into an owned, measured control
- Risk appetite and tolerance in practical terms
- Registers, owners and review cadence
- Control design versus control operation
- Third-party and concentration risk
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Assurance, audit and evidence
6 lessons- What assurance work asks for, and why evidence beats intention
- Internal, external and independent assurance
- Control evidence as a by-product of good process
- Findings, remediation and management response
- Aligning to a framework without overstating what that means
- + 1 more lesson
- 06
Financial and workforce stewardship
6 lessons- Budgeting, charging and showing where the money went
- Capital and operating spending patterns
- Chargeback, showback and the behaviour each creates
- Sourcing decisions and how reversible they are
- Skills, succession and key-person risk
- + 1 more lesson
- 07
Practice and check
5 lessons- Say what you mean in the boardroommatch pairs
- From a strategic sentence to a funded portfoliosequence order
- Governance words that carry weightfill blank
- Thursday's board packscenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
41 lessons across 7 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.