The SPL Research was supported by Grants from the Following Institutions:
In his PhD dissertation, Stefanovic (2008) has developed a maturity assessment tool to evaluate the maturity of a project (and a collection of projects in a company) on the three major dimensions of SPL:
- Department of Defense, Israel
- Center for Business Research, Tel Aviv University
- National Science Foundation
- NASA
- Center for the Development of Technological Leadership, University of Minnesota
- PMI (Two Grants)
- Center for Technology Management Research, Stevens Institute of Technology
Universities that Supported the Research
- Tel-Aviv University
- University of Minnesota
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Rutgers University
Data Collected for this Research and its Relation to the Five Streams
| Data Base Source | #Projects
/ Yr Startef |
Data collected | Research Streams | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Industrial projects in Israel | 25/1990 | Case studies | X | X | First study on contingency theory for project | |||
| Industrial projects in Israel | 127/1991 | Statistical dats | X | X | Statistical validation of adaptive model | |||
| Defens R&D Programs in Israel | 110/1993 | Case studies;
Statical data |
X | X | Deeper analysis & emergence of “Diamond” | |||
| Industrial projects in the U.S | 250/1999 | Case studies | X | X | X | X | X | First large SPL study |
| NASA projects | 12/2003 | Case studies;
Statical data |
X | X | X | X | Developing NASA’s PM Framework | |
| Industrial Projects in the U.S | 280/2005 | Statistical dats | X | Continuous data collection on SPL Matuity | ||||
| Industrial Projects in the U.S. | 63/2008 | Statistical dats | X | Spirit Study | ||||
| Aerospace Programs – On-going | 150/2010 | Case reports of companies | X | X | X | X | Data collection continues annually for future research | |
| Total # of Projects | 1017 | |||||||
