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CGEIT Grandfathering Application
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1. I think I am qualified, but not sure. Any
suggestions?
2. There is no way that I can summarize my career in
500 words. What should I do?
3. What is the best way to summarize my IT governance
experience in the narrative?
4. My view is that IT governance involves assessing
how financial resources are to be spent to maximize a business process.
Would you agree?
5. I have been working in assurance or compliance
related jobs my entire career. Can I qualify?
6. Does my Information Security Governance experience
qualify as IT Governance experience?
7. As an IT manager, I've had experience with
identifying the skill gaps of the people who work for me. Does that
qualify as experience in the Resource Management domain?
1.
I think I am qualified, but not sure. Any suggestions?
First, re-read the CGEIT Job Practice. While
going through it one domain at a time, write down specific examples from
your work experience that demonstrate your participation in that area of
governance of enterprise IT. Keep in mind that just having experience
with business systems or IT or audit or security, doesn't necessarily
mean you are qualified. You must be able to relate that experience to IT
governance. Also, you must have experience in domain 1 and at least 2 of
the other domains in order to qualify.
2.
There is no way that I can summarize my career in 500 words. What should
I do?
Remember that you aren't trying to summarize
your career. The CGEIT Certification Board is not looking for volume (of
words), but clear and succinct examples of your experience in domain 1
and at least two other domains. Your description needs to help the CGEIT
Board reviewers see that you have an understanding of, and experience
in, the governance of enterprise IT.
3.
What is the best way to summarize my IT governance experience in the
narrative?
Explicitly identify the domains in your
narrative when you describe your specific experiences in those areas. In
other words, start your narrative with "Domain 1: IT Governance
Framework", then under that, describe your experience with developing,
or being part of the development of, and/or maintenance of an IT
governance framework. Then do the same with each of the other domains in
which you have experience. This allows you highlight the experience you
have in each domain, without including other experience that is less
governance related. The CGEIT Certification Board members reviewing the
applications have found this approach very helpful. Remember, you want
to demonstrate to the CGEIT Certification Board members that you have an
understanding of, and experience in, the governance of enterprise IT.
4.
My view is that IT governance involves assessing how financial resources
are to be spent to maximize a business process. Would you agree?
IT governance is broader than that. If it were
only "assessing how financial resources are to be spent to maximize a
business process" then good investment management and program/project
management is all you would need. The broader view says that IT
governance is about the leadership, the organizational structures, and
the processes in the organization that, all together, help ensure that
the detailed IT work contributes to business goals and objectives. So
good project management practices help make sure you meet time, budget
and scope requirements, but IT governance processes are about how those
projects get selected and how the available resources get split between
new projects and sustaining operations; they're about the measurement of
expected business outcomes to actual. It's about how alignment of the
entire IT effort with business objectives is ensured.
5.
I have been working in assurance or compliance related jobs my entire
career. Can I qualify?
You may but you need to have had experience
that goes beyond just doing audits or checking compliance. Go through
the CGEIT Job Practice. Think of examples from your roles and
responsibilities where you participated in work that furthered the
purpose/objective of each of the governance domains. Assurance
professionals can, and do, make contributions beyond inspection and
reporting. If you have, record those specific examples in the
application narrative so that the CGEIT Board Certification Board
members can see that you have an understanding of, and experience in,
enterprise governance of IT.
6.
Does my Information Security Governance experience qualify as IT
Governance experience?
Very likely, but not automatically. You need
to be able to relate that experience to how it contributed to the
broader IT governance domains described in the CGEIT Job Practice.
7.As an IT manager, I've had experience with identifying the skill gaps of
the people who work for me. Does that qualify as experience in the
Resource Management domain?
Probably not, although it may appear so. For
example, there is a task statement in the CGEIT Job Practice that says,
"Ensure that the requirements for trained resources with the requisite
skill sets are understood and are assessed appropriately." You might be
doing that within the organization you manage, but at that level it
isn't IT governance, it's good management. The CGEIT Job Practice task
statements must be considered within the context of the domain
description. In this example, the CGEIT Certification Board is looking
at this task as it contributes to the development of "systematic and
continuous resource planning, management, and evaluation processes" to
"ensure that IT has sufficient, competent and capable resources to
execute current and future strategic objectives". If your assessment of
the skill gaps of your people was part of a broader governance effort,
OR if your efforts somehow lead to better enterprise IT resource
planning (beyond your group), then the experience would apply.
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