The Levels of Project Management Capability

Following is a scale with six levels in which each level corresponds to increasing capabilities of project management within an organization. There are seven variables, described here, that make up the scale, which is summarized in Table 4-1.

Who Manages the Projects?

As a worst case, projects may not be managed at all (level one). They may be managed by a line supervisor or manager as a peripheral activity (level 2), by a technical team member who has been asked to ''look after the project'' but who has not been given any formal requirements or expectations (level 3), by a team member who has been designated the project manager and who is expected to provide some project management control (level 4); ...

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