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PM² Methodologies

The Methodologies Office is part of the Directorate-General for Digital Services of the European Commission. Its purpose is to develop, support and promote a suite of methodologies for the European Commission, which also available to all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. In addition, the Methodologies Office maintains a training and certification programme, exclusively available to EU staff, and manages EU Institutions-wide Communities of Practice for the exchange of good methodology practices.

The Methodologies Office also promotes PM² externally. The PM² methodologies, which include PM² Project Management, PM²-Agile, PM² Programme Management, and PM² Portfolio Management, are open to all via a CC licence.

The Methodologies Office also develops and maintains open e-learning courses which are available via the EU Academy. It also promotes the PM² Methodologies to external stakeholders such as Member States, public administrations, EU Funded Programmes, and others.

All the external activities of the Methodologies Office are grouped under the Open PM² Initiative which is funded by Digital Europe Programme.

* The Centre of Excellence in PM² (CoEPM²) is now part of the Methodologies Office.

 

The Methodologies Office provides:

For the European Institutions and Agencies:

  • Training and Certification programmes
  • Consultancy Services
  • Community of Practice events

Externally: 

  • PM² publications available from the Publications Office of the European Union: PM², PM²-Agile, PM²-Programme Management and PM²-Portfolio Management
  • e-Learning modules on PM² and PM²-Agile Essentials via the EU Academy
  • Promotes the use of PM² as a European and Open Project Management Methodology

PM² Timeline

  1. 2023
    Release of PM² Project Management Guide v3.1
  2. 2022
    Release of PM² Portfolio Management Guide v1.5
  3. 2022
    PM² incorporated in European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations (ESCO)
  4. 2021
    PM² added as a solution to the European Interoperability Framework Toolbox for the European Public Services
  5. 2021
    Release of the PM²-Agile Guide v3.0.1
  6. 2021
    Release of PM² Project Management Guide v3.0.1
  7. 2021
    Release of PM² Programme Management Guide v1.0
  8. 2018
    Release of PM² Project Management Guide v3.0
  9. 2018
    Open PM² Conference
  10. 2018
    Release of PM² Project Management Guide - Open Edition
  11. 2015
    Release of PM² Project Management Guide v2.5
  12. 2015
    Release of PM² Training and Certification Programme in the EU institutions
  13. 2013
    Release of PM² Project Management Guide v2.0
  14. 2013
    Release of the first PM² Project Management Guide