This Second Edition of the book that laid the ground work for a strategic approach to project management, Using the Project Management Maturity Model: Strategic Planning for Project Management presents a proven model developed by the author for assessing a company's success in integrating project management. It begins by examining the principles of strategic planning and how they relate to project management, and then moves on to introduce the PMMM, detailing the five different levels of development for achieving maturity, along with benchmarking instruments for measuring an organization's progress along the maturity curve.