The Impact of Project Management Maturity Levels on Project Success in the Construction and Engineering Industry in Bahrain

Literature Review

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2001 6^th ed) expresses maturity as “the state of being fully grown or developed”. When the latter definition is applied to a project it could imply a particular situation where an organization has procedures in a place that will help it in achieving its given objectives. It can be that some organizations are considered mature if that organization is in a situation to deal impeccably with the given projects (Pretorius et al, 2011).

The nature of work is changing and along with it the demand for project managers is swelling. The practice of project management has been demonstrated in the traditional project-based industries, such as aerospace and information technology (IT), and the demand is growing in the energy and constructions (Hodgson & Cicmil, 2006; Project Management Institute [PMI], 2014, n.d.). Over the last decade, (Gan & Chin, 2019) argued, PM education and project management professional (PMP) certification has increased tremendously. It is projected that between the years of 2010 and 2020, 15.7 million new project management roles will be added around the world across seven project demanding industries which are Manufacturing, Business Services, Finance & Insurance, Oil & Gas, Information Services, Constructions, and lastly, Utilities” (PMI, 2013, p. 2).