Aspects of University Project Management Maturity Assessment

Abstract

The article emphasizes the importance of project management maturity for the efforts to
ensure the quality of implemented projects. The authors analyse different concepts of project
organization, provide theoretical analysis of project quality and project management maturity
models and state that university can be regarded as a project organization. Based on empirical
research results, the assessment of project management maturity of Kaunas University of
Technology is provided. The empirical research showed that the most important group of
factors, which characterize the level of project management maturity within an organization, is
the importance of the implemented projects from the perspective of organizational strategy and
needs of its clients.