The Power of Enterprise-Wide Project Management

26.3. Stages of Project Business Management Maturity

Project business management should provide accurate, routine, consistent, and adequate information into the progress and status of every project, program, and portfolio, so that management can take effective action when performance deviates from the approved work plan. However, project business management, as with other management functions, can be viewed as having, or operating at, various levels of effectiveness, also called levels of project business management maturity, in performing its work. One aspect of applying project management processes is to work toward improving the usefulness of those processes in supporting the selection, planning, execution, and control of portfolios, programs, ...