The Contextual Utility of Agile Project Management Maturity

This study offers both theoretical proposition and empirical evidence on the efficacy or utility of agile project management maturity within the project-based organization context of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms in Indonesia. It is conjectured that the association between maturity and performance of the respective firms is moderated by project attributes - i.e. criticality, and emergent complexity. A cross-sectional survey is carried out with targeted respondents of senior management and project practitioners of ICT firms which implement agile approaches at varying maturity levels. Around 34% of response rate is achieved for 355 invitations with a final sample size of 59. The result suggests that the association between agile maturity and performance is positively moderated by project emergent complexity. Project criticality is not found to be a moderating variable.