Download or read book Project Management Maturity Model written by J. Kent Crawford and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-11-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Management Maturity Model: Providing a Proven Path to Project Management Excellence offers effective strategies for the implementation of efficient project management systems for increased levels of organizational maturity, time and cost conservation, quality assurance, and project success. It details areas critical to organizational improvement such as the project office, management oversight, professional development, risk assessment, and streamlining processes. Summarizing methods to identify, analyze, and control factors affecting project quality and scheduling, Project Management Maturity Model supplies descriptions of the component qualities and characteristics of each layer of the maturity level, techniques to build a culture of project management excellence, an industry-wide benchmarking survey of project management maturity, a logical path to improve organizational processes, tools to measure company progress, a set of priorities for short-term improvement actions, and more.