When the PM² Methodology came along more than a decade ago, it managed to capture the attention of the EU Institutions as a fresh, lean, and practical approach to project management.
It had successfully distilled the extensive project management experience that EU Institutions had accrued down the decades into a distinctly European project management methodology – a methodology that is now used throughout the EU and Europe and is rapidly gaining traction globally.
PM² makes use of common project management elements and best practices and facilitates improved accountability, transparency, communication, and collaboration on projects undertaken within and across organisations. It achieves a sophisticated balance of well-structured applied knowledge.
Learn about the Advantage of PM² for International Institutions and the Public Sector.
Open PM² is a lean, open-source, and free project management methodology that is community-driven and community-owned and aims to enable better project management all over the world.
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The PM² Advantage for the Public Sector
1. The PM² Advantage
for Project Management
in the Public Sector
Nicos Kourounakis
MASc, MBA, PM²
President of the PM² Alliance
Methodology Expert & Consultant
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About the Speaker
Nicos Kourounakis - MBA, PM²
President of the PM² Alliance
Methodology Expert & Consultant
Nicos is a professional Project Management Consultant & Trainer.
Over the past 10 years, he has been leading consulting projects at major EU Institutions such as the
European Commission, the European Council, the European Central Bank, the European Investment Bank,
the European Parliament and several EU Agencies, but also with many private and public organisations.
He has also been involved in many international projects in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom,
Belgium, Luxembourg and across Europe, working both with large organizations and with smaller ventures
and start-ups.
Nicos is the Co-Author of the PM² Methodology (2012, 2016, 2018) and Agile PM² Guidelines (2014), the
PfM² Portfolio Management Methodology (2021), the PgM² Programme Management Methodology (2022),
and a founding member of the PM² Alliance and the PM² Foundation.
He holds an MBA from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Victoria, Canada, and a BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He
has also achieved many Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA-D and PM² and Agile PM².
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Specific Considerations
• Audit and Artefact oriented
• Contract and output oriented, and much less outcomes oriented
• Public sector organisations are bureaucracies
• They have a specific way of seeing risk, opportunity and value creation
• Strong hierarchical and traditional Functional structures
• Procedures and rules based
• Politics dominate. Political decisions override other priorities and plans
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Project Management is our "weapon"
PM² is a European Project Management Methodology
developed by the European Commission.
Its purpose: to enable project teams to manage projects
in an effective and efficient manner for the purpose of
delivering solutions and benefits to their Organisations
and their Stakeholders.
Download the PM² Guide from the EU Bookshop
PM² Alliance Publications: https://www.PM²alliance.eu/publications/
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Important questions:
• What (needs to be done)?
• When (do we need to do it)?
• Who (should do it)?
• How (do we do it)?
PRODUCT
(PM) PROCESS
• What (needs to be done)?
• When (do we need to do it)?
• Who (should do it)?
• How (do we do it)?
WHY?
WHY?
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Closing Thoughts
• A European Methodology
• Sponsored by the European Commission
• Tried and proven
• Open Source + Business Ecosystem
• Open Community Support
• Suitable Governance Structure
• Artefact templates (in your language)
• Low barriers and Effort to start using
• Low costs of ownership
• Low cost of Certification (and TCO)
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1. Join the PM² Alliance:
https://www.PM²alliance.eu/membership-types/
2. Become a PM² Alliance Manifesto Signatory:
https://www.PM²alliance.eu/PM²-manifesto/
3. Read more about Open PM²:
https://www.PM²alliance.eu/what-is-PM²/
4. Download the free PM² Guide from the EU Bookshop:
https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ac3e118a-cb6e-11e8-9424-01aa75ed71a1
5. Download the Open PM² Templates and publications:
https://www.PM²alliance.eu/publications/
6. Follow the PM² Alliance on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/PM²Alliance/
7. Follow the PM² Alliance on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/PM²-alliance
PM² Resources
Nicos Kourounakis
https://www.PM²Alliance.eu/user/nicos.kourounakis