The maturity level of the project management in E-Commerce projects in Greece

Abstract

The short space time that an organization has sometimes makes it difficult to adopt a specific e-commerce project management methodology. Sufficient time is required, adequate financial support and human resources with skills in order to make a start with a comprehensive methodology. It is, however , often more suitable that a maturity model is used so as to move from one maturity model to the next. . A good evaluation of the maturity level of an organization provides a good benchmarking tool for rating the success of its operations. An exercise like that was carried out in South Africa in 2003, and the general average project management maturity was found to be 2.92 (Sonnekus & Labuschagne, 2004) on a scale of 1 to 5. The success rate of the projects was linked closely with the maturity level. In this paper we report an exercise that is similar to this and is conducted in Greece regarding the level of maturity of e-commerce projects. The average level of maturity of e-commerce companies in Greece can give us a useful indication of, amongst others, the status that exists now in the software project management with a view to bring about improvement in this sector.