The Organizational Project Management Maturity Model or OPM3® is a globally recognized best-practice standard for assessing and developing capabilities in executing strategy through projects via Portfolio Management, Program Management, and Project Management. It is published by the (PMI). OPM3 provides a method for organizations to understand their processes and practices, and to make these processes capable of performing successfully, consistently, and predictably. OPM3 helps organizations develop a roadmap that the company will follow to improve performance. The Second Edition was published in 2008 and the current Third Edition was published in 2013. The latter editions are recognized by the (ANSI) as an American National Standard ( and, respectively). Contents • • • • • • • • History [ ] In 1998, PMI chartered a team named the OPM3 Program to develop an Organizational Project Management Maturity Model to be a global standard for (OPM).

Becoming one of PMI's foundational standards, OPM3 marked PMI's first step toward a 'strategy implementation through projects' paradigm, and marketing that paradigm has been PMI's dominant logic, encapsulated in PMI's slogan 'Making Project Management Indispensable for Business Results.' During development of OPM3, the team of volunteers analyzed twenty-seven existing models and deployed surveys repeatedly to 30,000 practitioners. The concept of maturity model had been popularized through the or CMM for software development that was created by the (SEI) of between 1986 and 1993. The team reviewed CMM and other models to understand the scope of each model, capabilities of each model, methodology for conducting assessments against each model, each model's structure, and each model's implementation procedures. The analysis concluded that existing models left many important questions about (OPM) maturity unanswered and that the team should proceed with the development of an original model through the sponsorship of PMI. The project team used a brainstorming technique to facilitate the identification of elements of (OPM) in such a way that no single person could dominate the process. Participants were invited to suggest elements that constituted maturity in OPM.

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Such elements were refined as testable Capability Statements that were created by PMI volunteers, who consolidated and eventually organized the Capability Statements into groups called OPM3 best practices. Each OPM3 best practice statement denotes a group of Capability Statements. OPM3 Capability Statements are the testable statements of the OPM3 standard (not the OPM3 best practices).

To ensure alignment to PMI's standard, processes from this PMI standard were incorporated in the first edition of OPM3 (see Contents below) published in December 2003. After release of OPM3, PMI developed OPM3 Online, a web-based database that allowed users to search OPM3 best practices, conduct rudimentary assessments against the model, and serve as a reference when implementing improvements, but PMI later retracted this tool because users complained that it did not reveal how to move from one maturity level to the next higher level (because it did not include the OPM3 Capability Statements). Shortly thereafter, PMI removed the OPM3 Capability Statements from the OPM3 standard and began to sell those Capability Statements separately in a software tool named OPM3 ProductSuite. To gain access to that tool, users were required to pay thousands of dollars to be certified in use of the tool, and then they were required to pay thousands of dollars each year in maintenance fees. When the marketplace would no longer support this, PMI retracted OPM3 ProductSuite. However, PMI did not release the OPM3 Capability Statements or make them available for purchase in any format. Following PMI's standard development lifecycle, the OPM3 Second Edition was published in December 2008 to update the standard based on experience in the field and align it with other PMI standards.