Assessment of innovation-project process maturity in small IT-companies

This paper presents a lightweight approach to assessing the maturity of innovation-project management processes in small IT companies, illustrated by the case of Anik Lab LLC. The core of the method is a ten-item checklist derived from the intersection of three frameworks: CMMI v2.0, PM² Maturity and the Agile Fluency Model. Only open sources were used to populate the checklist – namely the company’s public GitLab repository, product wiki pages, industry media posts, job vacancies and the Russian Register of Domestic Software. Content analysis confirmed six practices and revealed four gaps: the lack of a formal Definition of Done, a public risk log, a defect-density metric and a changecost calculator. Based on these findings, a roadmap of improvements through Q2 2026 was drafted; it is expected to cut time-to-market by 20 percent and raise customer NPS by five points. The method is reproducible for other SME teams, requires no access to confidential data and can serve as a starting point for deeper diagnostics.