Is your Organization only a LEVEL 1 in Project Management Maturity?

Every great business must start with a firm foundation in great business practices.

You must have great people, processes, tools, collaboration, coordination, and communication all working in tandem to build your dream business (or business you work for) and its solution.

Learning by experience will take you far, but your organization’s maturity and your best practices can be gained by understanding business improvement models, assessing your current state and how to bridge the next business gap, and most of all sound management of individual, team, and company improvement projects.

You can learn from others challenges and mistakes to make it an easier path forward. Your maturity does not depend on years (In fact, sometimes experience works against you because those persons know no better way of doing things), but rather ability, understanding, and performance.

How can you assess your Organization and its Project Management Maturity?

At Storyboard PM we want to use Practical Principles of Project Management to help you establish a Level 5 in your Organizational Change Management Maturity and Project Management Maturity, but every organization starts at Level 1.

Problems that first manifest at the project management level are often just symptoms of a deeper root cause related to the greater organization, its culture, and environmental factors outside of the project itself. But a project at the frontlines, especially in times of trouble, provides a good indication of organizational behavioral health. It’s a good starting point, for a nice sample to test and work back from, to look at how well your organization, departments, and individuals work together overall to navigate, especially uncharted waters. Let’s focus on Project Management Maturity first!

Here’s our overview of Level 1 Project Management Maturity:

1) Heroes Needed
* Vague Processes, if any are defined at all (No set standard mode of operation)
* Informal Project Management Approach (Never clear projects, requirements, support, and method to the madness.)
* Ad Hoc Basis (Improvising and making up everything as you go, not building on successes with a cohesive project strategy.)
* Tribal Knowledge. (Everything is in someone’s mind, not written down.)
* Hero Mindset. (Low teamwork. Lots of friction. Hero mindset takes over and seeks no blame, only credit. Failed desired outcomes.)