Project Management Maturity Models (PMMM) are considered practical tools to deal with poor (PM) performance, an issue that concerns academics and practitioners. However, the models exist something close “one size fits all”. This means those might not be suitable for activity sectors specific requirements, such as construction, in particular, renovation remodelling construction firms. The presen...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the most popular maturity models in order identify their strengths and weaknesses. Research conducted by international project management communities such as Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Project Management (PMI), International Association (IPMA), Office Government Commerce (OGC) Organization for Standardization (ISO) showed that organizations w...

A high maturity organization is expected to use metrics heavily for process and project management. A study was conducted to understand how some of the high maturity organizations use metrics. This report summarizes the similarities found in the use of metrics, focusing on the metrics infrastructure employed, use of metrics in project planning, use of metrics in monitoring and controlling a pro...

Increasing litigation in the software industry is a growing concern for software engineers. In some cases it can be a serious threat to the software commercial and financial success. Looking at current software best practice frameworks and international standards we have not found any guidance on legal assurance for software engineers. Project Management standards such as the Project Management...

Nowadays there are more than thirty maturity models in different knowledge areas. Maturity model is an area of interest that contributes organizations to find out where they are in a specific knowledge area and how to improve it. As Information Resource Management (IRM) is the concept that information is a major corporate resource and must be managed using the same basic principles used to mana...

Project management (PM) capabilities define organizational abilities of delivering predictable project results in a changing environment. For evaluation and continuous improvement of the organizational PM capabilities, a PM maturity model is used. This model is a tool to benchmark existing PM processes against best practices and to identify the most suitable practices for implementation in an o...

Business intelligence systems (BISs) refer to a wide range of technologies and applications useful for retrieving analyzing large amount information with the goal generate knowledge making effective business decision. In order investigate adoption BISs in companies, we propose model based on technology acceptance (TAM) that is expanded by variables representing concept project management maturi...