Project Management Maturity Model, 3rd Edition

Describing Project Management Maturity ◾ 11

crucial to successful project completion. SW-CMM and later

Capability Maturity Models (CMMs) have become de facto

standards for process modeling and assessing an organization’s

maturity in several process areas (e.g., personnel management,

systems engineering). Since the CMM concept has received

such widespread acceptance, it makes sense to develop a

Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM) that follows the

same structure.

The Key Practice areas of the CMMs include topics familiar

to those who read the PMBOK

®

Guide: project planning, execu-

tion, monitoring, and control. Our PMMM further decomposes

those topics into the component processes associated with

each knowledge area as described in the PMBOK ...