  G\'EANT project is an example of a large organization with around 30 software
projects and around 20 software development teams. Software development teams
consist of many skilled associates coming from all members National Research
and Education Networks. Three main issues that are common for all these
software development teams and their members are: geographical distribution,
scattered manpower percentage, and parallel involvement in other high priority
projects in their native organizations. This paper presents a novel software
maturity model that is designed specifically for G\'EANT software development
teams and aims to address the described issues.
