The Project Management Maturity Model … Now with Agile/Adaptive Assessment!

June 2, 2021 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

We had an exciting presentation at PMEXPO in March, partly based on our just-released book, The Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition. While it’s always a thrill to publish a new book, this one in particular is a source of pride, partly because it’s the result of how PM Solutions experts pulled together to demonstrate creativity during the pandemic. I’ve already blogged about our “skunk works” project that updated and published the model in record time (4.5 months, compared to a full year the last time we updated in 2013-14)—you can read that here.

We’re also proud of the completely new, and as far as we know, unique addition to the model, a set of “snap-on” components that can be used by organizations in the throes of agile transformation to gauge their progress on implementing an Agile/Adaptive Environment (to use language from the book).  These components were developed by analyzing the crossovers between the PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas and the Agile Principles to determine where synergies exist between project management practice and agile mindset and processes.

Now that the book itself is publicly available, we are excited to start using it in our consulting practice, as well as to hear from others who may be “self-assessing” and using the model on their own. As Kent writes in the acknowledgements to the Fourth Edition, the organizations that use this model to improve their processes and outcomes are an army of “field testers,” whose practical experience has, over the years, helped us to refine and update the model, which is more of a living document than a static, set-in-stone one.

To get a jumpstart on your understanding of the model and how to use it, please sign up for our upcoming webinar in July (dates soon to be announced). There, Gary Alvord, one of the SMEs who was a key contributor to the update, will join me to discuss the ways that organizations can use maturity modelling, and the agile/adaptive assessment, to improve business processes and – most importantly—outcomes.

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Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin is editor-in-chief for PM Solutions Research, and the author, co-author and editor of over twenty books on project management, including the 2007 PMI Literature Award winner, The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Second Edition.

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