The Organizational Project Management Maturity Model. And an application of the OPM3 assessment tool. OPM3 Online Self-Assessment. Project Management Maturity can improve the probability that projects are delivered successfully by an organization. Our project management maturity assessment.

If you were a gardener who wished to grow a Florida orange tree from a seed to maturity, you would probably be pleased if I offered you a water bucket. That’s assuming you interpret the words “water bucket” to mean a bucket of water. Obviously if I were only offering you a bucket that could contain water but didn’t, then you would not have what you needed. Certainly you would have the shape of what you needed, but not the thing itself. At best, you might find this aggravating. At worst, your seedling could die. Either way, it is what’s in the bucket that you need.

Obviously we are interested in growing organizations, not oranges. But the metaphor is useful: The OPM3 Standard is to water what OPM3 Online and OPM3 ProductSuite are to water buckets and buckets of water, respectively.