What are IT management standards

Last updated: 2024-11-06

IT Management Standard and Methodologies

  • There are several basic standards, frameworks and methodologies for IT governance that help build best practices and process standards.
  • The most prominent and widely used in practice are ITIL and COBIT

IT management according to ITIL

ITIL V4 divides IT management processes into 4 areas

  • Organizations and people
  • Information and technology
  • Partners and suppliers
  • Value streams and processes

It also divides management into three areas

  • General management practices
  • Service management practices
  • Technical management practices

IT management according to COBIT

ITIL divides IT management processes as follows

  • Manage risk
  • Manage security
  • Manage changes
  • Manage operations
  • Manage service requests and incidents
  • Manage problems
  • Manage security services
  • Monitor, evaluate and assess performance and conformance

Other standards a frameworks for IT management

  • ISO 27001
  • DevOps
  • SIAM
  • IT4IT
  • LEAN