PM² Essentials: course material available online

The European Commission is now releasing the presentation with training material from the one-day course called Project Management Methodology Essentials to further support institutions, organizations and European citizens in understanding the methodology and use it as appropriate.

Project Management Methodology (PM²) is an open source project management methodology, created and supported by the European Commission.  



What are the objectives?

The course offers an overview of PM² and covers all main aspects of the methodology, namely: 

the governance model, the project roles and responsibilities, the Mindsets, the lifecycle, the processes, best practices and the key PM² project templates.

Participants who complete this introductory course will be familiar with all the elements of PM², understand its value and be able to start using some of the basic best practices. This can help them increase their effectiveness in managing project work.

Therefore this course enables participants to:

• understand the basic characteristics of projects and project management.
• understand the organisational issues surrounding project management.
• appreciate the value of PM² in managing project work.
• obtain the foundation knowledge necessary for working in PM² Projects.

This course is suitable for anyone who:

• Wishes to learn more about project management and PM² in particular. No prior knowledge of project management is required.
• Wishes to conduct/develop training courses on this open, lean and easy to use methodology.

This course is the first part of the PM² training programme followed within the European Commission (and other EU Agencies and Institutions) as a pre-requisite for PM² and PM²-Agile certifications. 

You can download the course in PDF.



Should you wish to receive the PowerPoint format please get in touch. Accessing PM² resources (such as Open PM² Wiki, the presentation etc.) requires registration with EU Login. Please find guidelines here.

We do hope you will find this training course useful and we are looking forward to your feedback.

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