The objective of fully mechanizing olive harvesting has been pursued since the 1970s to cope with labor shortages and increasing production costs. Only in last twenty years, after adopting super-intensive planting systems developing appropriate straddle machines, a solution seems have found. spread plantings, however, raises serious environmental social concerns, mainly because small number cul...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the most popular maturity models in order identify their strengths and weaknesses. Research conducted by international project management communities such as Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Project Management (PMI), International Association (IPMA), Office Government Commerce (OGC) Organization for Standardization (ISO) showed that organizations w...