Developing a Framework for Assessing the Project Maturity of a Company Based on Hybrid Project Management Approach

Project management maturity is the extent to which a company applies project management and contributes to its development. Maturity assessment helps to identify project management problems and helps to correct them, enabling the company to implement projects more efficiently. However, existing project management maturity models apply only to predictive and adaptive approaches and are ineffective in the modern world where organizations are actively adopting hybrid project management approach. This paper aims to cover the problem by developing a framework for assessing the project maturity of a company based on a hybrid project management approach. A multi-criteria conceptual model for maturity assessment was determined based on the characteristics of project management approaches, the specificity of maturity models, and the parameters influencing the choice of approach. Further, the framework was developed by the maturity criteria considered in the model: a questionnaire was developed, the maturity assessment process was defined, and the levels of predictive, adaptive, and hybrid project management maturity were described. In conclusion, the framework was tested in the company with a created product for automating the assessment, and recommendations for improving the project management maturity were developed. The assessment framework application will make it possible to control the reasonableness of hybridization, as well as determine the level of hybrid project management maturity and the quality of hybridization.