Abstract
Sustainability or sustainability development has been a major topic of discussion over the last couple
of years. Project management is also a discipline that is starting to focus on sustainability, but the focus
is more on the environmental aspect of the project itself. Information systems (IS) projects do not have
such a major impact on the environment as construction and engineering projects do. Should project
managers that are implementing these ‘soft’ projects be concerned about sustainability? There is
currently little or no knowledge about sustainability within the IS domain and whether sustainability is
incorporated at all within IS projects. A structured questionnaire was adapted based on previous studies.
It was circulated to the project management community within South Africa and a total of 1 099
responses were received. The responses covered all industries and for the purpose of this article, 387 IS
projects (35.2% of the total projects) were analysed to determine the level of project management
sustainability maturity. The objective of the study was to determine the level of capability regarding
sustainability.