Title: Assessing project management maturity in Sweden

Authors: Gunnar Dahlin; Olof Molinder; Raine Isaksson

Addresses: Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden ' Baseline Management, SE-Box 12017, 102 21 Stockholm, Sweden ' Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Abstract: Baseline Management has since 2013 conducted project management maturity (PMM) measurements in Sweden using a model called the Swedish project index (SPI) which consists of seven perspectives. SPI is influenced by the P3M3 maturity model. This study is based on data from 3,953 individual questionnaires, including both private and public organisations, for the period 2013-2019. The purpose of this article is to visualise levels of Swedish organisations' PMM as well as their performance improvement potential in different maturity perspectives. Results of this study indicate that different roles in the project organisation perceive PMM of their organisation differently and that maturity varies between business sectors and types of organisations. The SPI data indicate that the level of the perceived PMM is usually within two to three, on a scale ranging from one to five. The article describes in detail the earlier unpublished SPI model.

Keywords: maturity model; performance measurement; project management; PM; project management maturity; PMM; project management performance; project success.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPOM.2024.136264

International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, 2024 Vol.16 No.1, pp.22 - 45

Received: 25 May 2022
Accepted: 11 Nov 2022
Published online: 25 Jan 2024 *

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