Organizations looking to conduct an IT governance audit can use the best-practice steps in this work program sample.  

Sample steps include determining if an IT steering committee or similar governing body is in place to support the IT strategy committee’s higher-level deliberations; evaluating the methods used to establish cost transparency for IT projects and IT services; determining if allocation formulae are used to ensure that the costs associated with common IT systems and common IT infrastructure are fairly shared amongst the departments throughout the organization; and determining if comprehensive business cases are defined for proposed IT investments that include clearly articulated business benefits to enable the expected return to be calculated.