Several resources provide Excel-based assessment tools and templates for COBIT 2019 maturity and capability assessments, updated as recently as 2021. The official toolkit is provided by ISACA, while community-driven templates are available on academic and professional sharing platforms. Official ISACA Assessment Resources

Standardizing Input: Ensuring every auditor uses the same criteria.

Weighting Logic: Refined formulas for "Design Factors," ensuring that organizational context (like threat landscape or risk profile) accurately influences the target capability levels.

Tool Kit Enhancements: ISACA periodically updates its toolkits, including adding features like Excel-based RACI matrices to identify roles and responsibilities. Specific Assessment Templates (2021/Fixed Versions)

These tools are designed to translate high-level governance principles into actionable, measurable data through structured spreadsheets: Domain-Specific Templates:

to better support process assessment across the 40 governance and management objectives. www.isaca.org Key Features of the 2021 Assessment Tools

  1. Initial (Level 0): The organization has not implemented any IT governance processes, or the processes are ad-hoc and unmanaged.
  2. Managed (Level 1): The organization has implemented basic IT governance processes, but they are not well-managed or consistently applied.
  3. Defined (Level 2): The organization has defined and documented its IT governance processes, and they are well-managed and consistently applied.
  4. Quantitatively Managed (Level 3): The organization has implemented quantitative metrics to measure its IT governance processes, and they are well-managed and consistently applied.
  5. Optimized (Level 4): The organization has optimized its IT governance processes, and they are aligned with business objectives and continuously improved.