Project management maturity models Project management Lecture 2

Why there are maturity models? They are tools to benchmark one organization to the best practices of an industry. To help organizations to systematically manage the process improvements of project delivery over a period of time.

Basic assumptions behind maturity models Project management development is an evolutionary process: every firm goes through nearly the same, step-by-step development process in their use of PM techniques. Development stages can be identified, measured and compared to an industrial standard. Different organizations are on different levels of sophistication in their best practices for managing projects.

Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Project Management Maturity Generic Model Low Maturity Ad hoc process, no common language, little support Moderate Maturity Defined practices, training programs, organizational support High Maturity Institutionalized, seeks continuous improvement

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