Has your Organization levelled up to LEVEL 3 in Organizational Project Management Maturity?

How can you assess your Organization and its Project Management Maturity? Why is it important?

Your project management health is a key indicator of company’s potential and whether or not it is a great place to work and advance your career.

Storyboard PM wants to use Practical Principles of Project Management to help you get to a Level 5 in both your Organizational and Project Management Maturity, so your career/business/organizational development goes more smoothly through better change management initiatives and better project execution and improvement.

Here’s our overview of Level 3 Project Management Maturity:

3) Managed

* Well-Organized Efforts. (Processes are well-defined and managed)

* Performance is good. (Less fires to put out. Projects are initiated, planned, and executed well)

* Knowledge and Information transfer flows. (Handoffs between hands are smooth)

* Good Morale (Happy people are enthusiastic and proud of the Organization they work for).

No matter how good your people relations and business culture inside your organization, your business needs to keep improving or your current top performers and your professionals with the highest potential who bring untapped value will not want to be there. A company whose workforce wants to stay for longer than a few years in today’s world is a good one. But do your people want to stay because they are progressing professionally or because they are comfortable and feeling complacent?

A good culture starts with great people who like working with one another, but your processes should progress from good, to better, to best practices to achieve the most individual fulfillment and healthy business progress. Right now, at level 3 you are just good, not great. Keeping up the status quo will not be enough. Unless you keep moving forward your company will risk losing ground in the market and losing quality personnel off your teams. Don’t mistake cutbacks to temporarily improve the bottom-line as positioning yourself for growth. Even training someone knew, if/when you can afford to replace a position, is a costly setback. Don’t level off and get stuck in mediocrity. Keep up the momentum and take your project management and your teams to the next level.