[PMG] programme maturity - how are managers measuring up? (IT News).

Geoff Reiss, Chairman of The Program Management Group (PMG) www;,pm-group.co.uk will reveal the results of the first year of the Programme Management Maturity Model (PMMM) at the 5th annual PMI European Conference, Cannes in June. The online metric, which went live last summer, has captured the details and experiences of over 360 separate projects. With Mr Paul Rayner of Logica UK Ltd, Geoff Reiss will present "Programme Management Maturity Model - One Year On".

With PMMM, organisations or individuals can evaluate their programmes in management terms, comparing their own maturity with that of others on a fair basis. It allows participants to understand strengths and weaknesses and to develop a plan to improve their ability to deliver successful programmes.

PMMM, jointly developed by Paul Rayner of the Enterprise Performance Practice at Logica and Geoff Reiss of PMG, is available from www.e-programme.com, the web site of ProgM - the joint Programme Management Specific Interest Group of the British Computer Society and the Association for Project Management.

PMMM, available without charge for individuals, measures 55 indicators, from team definition to budget control, to provide an individual profile. These indicators are compared with a growing database of peer profiles to determine maturity and to help an organisation to focus on improvements.