A Framework for Increasing Project Maturity and Capability in Southern Africa

In Southern Africa, it has been shown that information technology projects are currently, generally performed in a basic, but rapidly maturing, project management environment. Now, in order for the organization (or project environment) to mature, certain processes must first be institutionalised. These processes are identifiable by inspection of the standards that relate to PM in general (and to IT PM in particular) and by excluding the activities that relate to specific technologies and products. Those identified processes should therefore be applied to most (if not all) IT projects in SA most (if not all) of the time. These processes were identified and used to iteratively create a project management framework which forms a basis of growth in terms of organizational capability or maturity. In this product, the PMBOKreg guide is used in combination with the CMMI and tailored for a sector, time and place, resulting in a unique approach to project management. This approach also provides a path for attaining and measuring project management maturity/capability.