What I Know It’s About Experience

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Hi and Salam to All,

Those that have read my blogs have possibly picked up the fact that I am biased towards business and not IT. This is not true, I have worked in IT for the past 23 years plus or minus and was a techie once. Some of my friends will say that I am still a techie. But being a techie seems to have bubblegum stuck to it. You know, when you walk along the pavement and step on some gum, it stretches and pulls you back and is difficult to get out or off. As anyone who has had gum in their hair, yep, you have to cut it out. having no hair to talk of, I do not have this problem . I have been trying to get out of the techie business but always seem to be pulled back.

I have been working with a friend who is more into Governance especially IT and WOW, he really knows his stuff.

Marius, is older than me and has much more experience in IT and IT Governance than I have and possibly will ever have. He is a mountain of knowledge with regards to certain standards and guidelines around IT Governance such as ITIL or ISO 20000, CoBIT and BS25999. His knowledgemet of System Development Lifecycles (SDLC) using TOGAF (http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/), Business Process Management and Best Development Practices  using their associated standards and guidelines is amazing.

Look at his website www.govware.co.uk, but please note that it is a temporary site. We are working on a better one.

With Fahad's permission, I will be asking Marius to post some stuff that will add value to your and my knowledge and understanding in all things nice, IT that is.

Cheers and Wa Alaikum As-Salam until next time,

Enjoy the rest of the week and may you travel safely.

Gavin