Question

1. What is a project management maturity model? What is CMMI? What benefits have studies shown from increasing project management maturity levels in organizations?

Answer 1

Project management maturity model is a framework for helping organizations improve their processes and systems. It can benefit organizations by improving their ability to manage projects. Organizations are embracing a realizing project management as a way of life.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

· is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance

· CMMI can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization

· CMMI according to the SEI (Software Engineering Institute), helps "integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.

· Levels are used in CMMI to describe the path for an organization that wants to improve the processes it uses to develop and maintain its products and services.

· CMMI supports two improvement approaches;

· Continuous-enabling an organization to incrementally improve processes within a process area selected by theorganization.

· Staged– enabling the organization to improve a set of related processes by addressing successive predefinedsets of process areas.

Project management skills can help both individuals and organizations by equipping them with the tools to help select task, goals, and project that will improve their quality of life or help aid in reach seemingly hard to reach goals. Then by taking the tools for managing and controlling a project and translating it to control facets of their life or day-to-day operations any individual and take these “project” tools and do great things