The world in which organizations operate today is rapidly becoming more complex than ever before. Major shifts in technology and in the business and economic environment present many opportunities, but also many challenges, to organizations striving to manage and thrive in the midst of great change. Projects have become important instruments for change and development in organizations. Project management maturity models have been studied and developed to sustain and drive project management strategies. The project management literature points out that the fact of one organization possesses a singular methodology to manage projects is a vital signal of maturity in terms of project management. This paper will address this issue through a review of project management maturity models and the presentation of a case study developed in a Brazilian subsidiary of a multinational company from the Lighting segment combining both a desk research of the singular methodology practiced by the company and a field research to evaluate its project maturity.
Project management; project maturity models; singular methodology
