DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UM MÉTODO DE AVALIAÇÃO DE MATURIDADE DE SISTEMAS DE INFORMAÇÃO PARA GERENCIAMENTO DE PROJETOS.

Abstract

Organizations from many different sizes and industry sectors have discovered that the path to achieving their corporate strategies is through successfully executing their projects. In this direction, studies suggest that the excellence in project management passes through maturity of the organization regarding to the subject. Many maturity models have been used to assist organizations in this journey, however, the existing models do not do deep analysis on the subject information systems. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to develop a method for evaluating the maturity of project management information systems (PMIS). Therefore, the methodological approach used to develop the research was the Design Science Research, in order to design and validate a not yet existing system, by creating a new maturity assessment method, based on the combination of existing models and creating new layers. As objects of study were analyzed project management maturity models consolidated in the market. It was found that these models were insufficient to assess the maturity of an organization s PMIS, justifying the need to develop a new artifact designed to meet this function. As theoretical references, were analyzed the following models: the OPM3 model proposed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a model of extensive use by Brazilian organizations entitled Prado - MMGP. It was found that only 74 OPM3 practices proposed by the model (representing less than 15% of the total presented by the model) and 6 questions presented by Prado model - MMGP (representing 15% of total questions) can have some relationship with the use of a PMIS. Thus, through the analysis of selected models in the investigation, it was found that they are not enough to give an assessment of the maturity of the organization of PMIS, because their objective are not to evaluate the system itself, but processes, culture and competences of organization. The artifact developed in the research was completed and the proposed method was structured in four layers (support, executive, management and governance and operational) and five levels (initial, known, standardized, managed and optimized) for presenting the different levels of an organization maturity, through an implementation process organized in four steps: assessment planning, conducting the assessment, improvements identification and implementing improvements. The validation of the proposed method was performed through the assessment of a PMIS experts group, employees of large organizations, users of the software Microsoft Project and subscribers of a special contract support in Brazil. The responses and comments received maintained that the method has overcome a current lack of large organizations that have a PMIS deployed and seek to increase their level of success in projects through the maturity improvement.