Are COBITs maturity models useful to organizations that have already adopted CMMI?
Yes, even though the approaches are different, an enterprise that has already adopted and applied CMMI can use COBIT to cover areas not addressed by CMMI, and will be able to use the CMMI experience to apply COBIT’s models to whatever formal level they require, in areas not covered by the scope that was defined for the CMMI assessment. For example, an advanced software development shop could broaden its maturity assessment to apply it to their entire IT function, including other important COBIT IT processes. The mapping publication, available from the ITGI, showing how COBIT compares to CMMI, would be a very helpful resource, but the enterprise would need to devise its own CMMI-like assessment approach using COBIT’s generic guidance as a starting point, or follow the suggested approach in the ITGI publicationIT Governance Implementation Guide: Using COBIT and Val IT, 2nd Edition. In time, it is expected that the CMMI guidance will broaden into other areas such as service management, wh
