The aim of this paper - the study of organizational project management maturity and personal project management expertise to establish the relationship between them and to submit proposals consistent with contemporary trends to help improve the current situation in project management in Lithuanian companies.

The first part analyzes the scientific literature, which defines the concept of project management, the project manager, as well as the concept of project management maturity and its assessment. The second part analyzes the results of survey of Lithuanian Project Management Association. After the questionnaire survey showed a trend towards the Lithuanian companies which carry out the projects are concentrated in higher-expertise project managers and organizations are not always able to provide them with the necessary working conditions and resources necessary for successful project implementation. In the third part is presented project of proposals, based on one of the maturity assessment and improvement of models - OPM3 and to improve organizational project management maturity in an organization.

Raktažodžiai: project management, project manager, project management maturity, OPM3