Maturidade em gerenciamento de projetos e seus fatores contribuintes: um estudo de caso com professores de pós graduação Lato Sensu no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

A business environment, ever more complex, resulting from deep changes in the social, economic and political scene, is a constant challenge to organizations. In said scene, projects, ever more critical, require the use of complex technologies, feature many teams, often geographically scattered and with strong cultural differences, and demand an effective management to achieve success. It is in that scene that the question of project management maturity, requiring structures, processes, techniques, tools, methodologies, among other aspects, arises. From the perspective of the evaluation of the levels of maturity, several studies have been made, and the literature is relatively rich, concerning the proposition and analysis of evaluating project management maturity. However, a deeper analysis, which looks to determine its contributing factors, is a good opportunity, both in terms of academic merit and real world situations. In that sense, this work aims to identify what factors are considered by organizations when they want their project management maturity levels. In a particular way, it explores the perspectives of professors in graduate project management courses in Rio de Janeiro, who are professionals committed to creating more qualified resources and who live with, daily, the aspirations and expectations of students. With a different perspective, in methodological terms, to those of published works thus far, by exploring the quantitative analysis of the data collected from the interviews, the objective is to contribute more to a better understanding of this issue, investigating the key factors that can hinder or advance the project management maturity levels of several organizations, which, consequently, will improve the success rate of the projects.