Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a doctoral thesis examining the limitations of project management maturity and associated models. It examines the management of undefined projects where the definition, repeatability and predictability of processes cannot be...

Purpose – The conceptual and modularization of project management maturity models is based on the principle of process control. This research was designed to challenge these boundaries to reveal non-process factors. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A...

This editorial reports on the findings from a one-day theory symposium held in advance of the PMI Global Congress 2012 in Vancouver, Canada. Twelve researchers in the project management domain participated in an intensive discussion about developing a comprehensive set of theories to describe,...