| ©2006, PDF for download, 89pp., Center for Business Practices
Improving an organization’s level of project management maturity results in significant performance benefits, especially in customer satisfaction. And, although organizations are, in general, fairly low in project management maturity, the higher the level of maturity, the better the performance of the organization in all areas measured. These conclusions are among the results of a survey of eighty-one senior project management practitioners by the Center for Business Practices.
Survey results document the maturity level of organizations in the nine project management knowledge areas: integration, scope, cost, time, quality, human resource, communications, risk, and procurement management. The results present a baseline of project management maturity in organizations. The report documents project management maturity in a way that organizations can use to perform a self-assessment and compare their maturity to the baseline survey.
More importantly, the survey shows clearly that organizational and project management performance is linked to reaching higher levels of maturity and shows what distinguishes high-performing organizations from low-performing ones. Also, results from a similar survey conducted in 2001 were compared with the current results to see whether or not there has been improvement over time in project management maturity industry-wide and, if so, how much. |
