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Do you know what a Maturity Model  is? 

A maturity model is a way to evaluate how skilled is an organization to manage their projects. This means that it allows it to be identified at wich level of maturity the project management is, so that way, it helps the manager to define the best path so the full success can be achieved. In this way, there are ways to increase the overall productivity and the level of satisfaction of those involved

There are several ways to analyze the maturity, but they are based on the idea of evaluating the organizational competencies in the implementation of key activities. The factors that influence this competence in project management are derived from the sum of the efforts of the available staff, the project manager, and the organization as a total.

What are the Main Maturity Models?

Knowing the importance of project management within an organizational structure, it was developed patterns and specific models to each type of project. The most widely used and recognized worldwide is the PMBOK, which indicates the existence of more than 27 models of maturity of projects. Below are the 5 main types of maturity:

• Center For Business Practices: The CBP promotes effective strategy execution through sound portfolio, program, project, and performance management by capturing best practice knowledge and integrating it into actionable, fact-based information.

• Harold Kerzner – PMMM: diagnoses the health of project management in your organization. It identifies strategic strengths and weaknesses and then creates a prescriptive action plan for improving the health of your PM efforts. Dr. Harold Kerzner says, "What I have observed in the past five decades is that project management excellence comes from four critical components: effective communications, effective cooperation, effective teamwork and trust.”

• Berkeley Model: It measures, locates, and compares an organization's current PM maturity level. The primary advantage of using this model and industries, whereas other maturity models have specific audiences like software development or new product development. they have also identified relationships between levels of organizational effectiveness and actual project performance data. The model is continuously being refined to reflect advances in their PM knowledge. Some of the most recent improvements include evaluating replicability of project success, which is the focus of this paper and presentation

• SEI-CMMI: Is a methodology used to develop and refine an organization's software development process. The model describes a five-level evolutionary path of increasingly organized and systematically more mature processes. The CMM is similar to ISO 9001, one of the ISO 9000 series of standards specified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The ISO 9000 standards specify an effective quality system for manufacturing and service industries; ISO 9001 deals specifically with software development and maintenance

• PMI: OPM3: The measure of an organization’s maturity is the robustness of its Organizational Project Management (OPM) infrastructure, which is how well it ties the management of projects, programs and portfolios to its stated strategic goals. The OPM3 model is a methodology for implementing and improving OPM. It accomplishes this goal through a five-step iterative cycle that emphasizes OPM assessment and continuous improvement. The assessment cycle focuses on the domains of project management (project, program, and portfolio) to determine the robustness of the OPM infrastructure of the domains both individually, and in the aggregate.

Applicability

To evaluate which model best suites the organization to reach a high level of maturity, it is important that some fundamental criteria are observed. They are: Availability, wich refers to how the model is effectively available. Basically, it's how the material needed for the implementation is obtained. Then, Questionnaire Format, that evaluates the format of the questions on model, If it’s opened or closed questions, if it uses Likert scale or other formats. The idea is to understand which fits more the management structure. Next, the Avaliation determines the quantitative formula with which its maturity is mathematically measured. It demonstrates whether it makes sense or not and its administrative approach. Further on, we have the Adherence to the Strategic Planning that evaluates whether the maturity model fits, properly or not, making adjustments to the organizational srategic planning. Last, Measurement of Improvements wich referes to the way implementation of improvements in project management is done.

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