Over the past decades, EU Institutions have accrued significant experience in project management from overseeing the investment of billions of Euros through thousands of projects, programmes and grants. The PM² Methodology captures this experience and provides a baseline project methodology, facilitating improved accountability, transparency, communication and collaboration on projects undertaken within and across organisations.
Through the Open PM² Initiative, the EU has provided open and free access to the PM² Methodology. PM² is now shared via multiple, but lean, publications and online resources which provide simple project management guidelines, documentation templates and productive mindsets written with the project manager in mind.
We believe that the future of project management depends on the community of project managers working together, and that the PM² Alliance has a crucial role to play in enabling the sharing of knowledge and experiences and fostering appreciation of PM² as a common, open and free methodology for Europe – and beyond.
”I want a European Union that is bigger and more ambitious on big things, and smaller and more modest on small things.”
“We will be doing less, but we will be doing our work more effectively. We will be working as a team and not in silos. And we will deliver.”
“Form has to follow function.”
“…to overcome silo-mentalities and introduce a new collaborative way of working in areas where Europe can really make a difference.”
“… to be able to deliver quickly and effectively.”
“… to organise the new Commission around project teams”
“… to be in charge of a number of well-defined priority projects, …in compositions that may change according to need and to possible new projects developing over time, and be in charge of steering and coordinating project teams, … depend on the contributions of his or her Project Team, … to successfully complete the project assigned to him or her.”
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
Speech before the European Parliament on 15 July 2014, SPEECH/14/585,
Press Conference, Brussels, 10 September 2014
The PM² Alliance carries the torch of the Open PM² vision, promotes PM², and takes it to places “where no PM² has gone before”. It brings the Open PM² community together, connecting PM² practitioners, trainers, experts and project managers from all over Europe and works with other Institutions and organisations in promoting better project management in Europe
excellence in Project Management
new ideas for a continual enhancement of project management mindsets and practices
knowledge throughout its network
tools for assessment and accreditation systems
through a series of learning and development activities that foster learning and self- improvement
people and organisations around the world through advocacy and dissemination
bringing peers together to exchange on latest developments and network
the wide adoption of the PM² Methodology