Project Management Maturity by Romero-Torres, Alejandro; Brunet, Maude; Lalonde, Benoît;

Short description:

This book demystifies the concept of project management maturity, linking it to tangible elements to assess project practices and organizational project management. Featuring actionable frameworks, real-world case studies, and evidence-based insights, it provides a roadmap to drive organizational performance and business results.

Long description:

Organizations simply can no longer execute projects the same way they have in the past. Their managers must rethink methods and change in response to an evolving context that is confronting every organization. An efficient way to realize this change is to evaluate project management and organizational project management maturity. Project Management Maturity: Elevating Organizational Performance explains how such an evaluation not only provides an independent benchmark of project management performance but also recommends targeted actions for change and improvement.

The book offers a framework to assess project management maturity at both the project and organizational levels. This framework was developed by academics and professionals tasked with evaluating project management maturity to improve organizational performance. To explain the steps required for a successful maturity evaluation, the book takes an action research approach to describe in detail the evaluation process. It further illustrates the process with a real-world case study of a maturity evaluation in a public sector organization. Presenting key findings and recommendations that follow from an evaluation, the book explains the four categories of results and describes general avenues for improvement based on the authors’ field experience. To help managers with their own evaluations, the book discusses how project management professionals have experienced the evaluation process and how they have transformed their organizations. It also presents how evaluators have experienced the process and how they have collaborated with project and organizational managers.

"Project Management Maturity: Unlocking Organizational Performance represents a real achievement of vision and collective effort. Written by an internationally recognized set of scholars working with experienced project practitioners and evaluators, its goal is to offer a clear examination of the nature of maturity and the benefits that derive from a purposeful evolution of organizational best practices with the goal of enhancing the means to deliver project value."
Jeffrey K. Pinto, Pennsylvania State University Erie

Table of Contents:

Part I: Foundations 1. The Concepts of Evaluation 2. Evaluators and Action Research 3. Framework for Assessing Project Management Maturity 4. Organizational Project Management Framework and Maturity Levels Part II: The Evaluation Process 5. Processes for Evaluation of Maturity 6. The Process in Practice Part III: The Results of a Maturity Assessment 7. Key Deliverables of an Evaluation 8. Generic Path for Improving Maturity 9. Voices from Project Professionals 10. Voices from Evaluators 11. Conclusion Appendix A. Roles Involved in the Governance and Execution of a Project Appendix B. Practices, Standards, and Practical Guides to Consider for Each Component of the Project Management Reference Framework