tailieunhanh - Project Management Process Maturity „PM… Model

Project management ~PM! tools, techniques, and processes have become a professional management discipline to initiate, plan, control, and close out one-of-a-kind endeavors. Corporate organi- zations are in favor of PM tools and practices that are well suit- able for today’s rapidly changing business environment. Further- more, the level of PM maturity that assesses an organization’s current levels of PM practices has become sophisticated over the years. PM maturity is a well-defined level of sophistication that assesses an organization’s current project management practices and processes. Despite the broad usage of PM tools and practices across dif- ferent industries, organizations are often confused, uncertain, and have difficulties locating their current application of PM. In. | Project Management Process Maturity PM 2 Model Young Hoon Kwak1 and C. William Ibbs2 Abstract This paper presents the project management process maturity PM 2 model that determines and positions an organization s relative project management level with other organizations. The comprehensive model follows a systematic approach to establish an organization s current proje ct management level. Each maturity level consists of major project management characteristics. factors. and processes. The model evolves from functionally driven organizational practices to project driven organization that incorporates continuous project learning. The PM 2 model provides an orderly disciplined process to achieve higher levels of project management maturity. DOI ASCE 0742-597X 2002 18 3 150 CE Database keywords Project management Models Organizations. Introduction Motivation Project management PM tools techniques and processes have become a professional management discipline to initiate plan control and close out one-of-a-kind endeavors. Corporate organizations are in favor of PM tools and practices that are well suitable for today s rapidly changing business environment. Furthermore the level of PM maturity that assesses an organization s current levels of PM practices has become sophisticated over the years. PM maturity is a well-defined level of sophistication thal assesses an organization s current project management practices and processes. Despite the broad usage of PM tools and practices across different industries organizations are often confused uncertain and have difficulties locating then currentappllcation of 1997 the writers proposed a 5-level PM process maturity PM 2 model to assess and improve an organization s current PM maturity level Ibbs and Kwak 1997 Kwak 1997 . The primary use of this model was to use it as a reference point for an organization that is trying to adapt and implement PM tools and processes. However this conceptual maturity model was by