OpenProject meets PM²
Our world needs better project management.
Together with the PM² Alliance, we make collaborative project management available for everyone.
A fool with a tool remains a fool. But project management without a good tool is slow, bureaucratic and inefficient. Together with the PM² Alliance, we address these issues:
- PM² is a powerful yet easy-to-use project management methodology suitable for any type of project. It is lean and it is open.
Methodology (effective) - OpenProject gives teams better control over their work, and results in higher project performance. Less time spent on admin and documentation means less stress and more productive time for creating value!
Software (efficient)
To combine the best practices of open source project management with powerful open source software and bring them into practice, OpenProject and the PM² Alliance are working closely together.
- A partnership which will bring free and open source project management closer to project teams.
- The PM² Alliance is an international association of PM² practitioners and enthusiasts who believe in open source solutions. It unites people from institutions, companies, and academia to share resources, inspire dialogue, and promote wider adoption of the PM² methodology. Through vision and leadership, the Alliance mobilizes its community to advance this mission every day.
- OpenProject, as leading open source project management software, provides the practical foundation for this partnership. With powerful tools for planning, transparency, and collaboration, OpenProject brings the PM² methodology into daily practice, helping organizations manage projects effectively while remaining open, secure, and sovereign.
We joined forces with OpenProject to make free and open source project management more readily available to project teams. Our organizations share a philosophy that puts the creation of value for our members and users at the center of our activities. We chose to partner up with OpenProject not only because its software is flexible and powerful, but also because of its strong open source brand. OpenProject makes it easier for teams managing their PM² projects to get more work done while spending less time planning, coordination and reporting tasks.
- It combines globally recognized project management methodologies and standards with project management best practices.
- It provides a common vocabulary for the effective management of projects within and across organizations.
- It enables improved accountability, transparency, and better stakeholder communication and collaboration.
- It provides a powerful governance structure with clearly described project roles and responsibilities.
- It allows for customization and tailoring to suit specific project needs and organizational environments.
- It includes guidelines on initiating, planning, executing and closing projects and describes activities for monitoring and controlling project performance.
- It provides a full set of artefact templates to help document and manage the project.
- It is evolved by the user Community and supported by the PM² Alliance.
The PM² Lifecycle
The PM² methodology defines four project management phases. This is an effective way to group the many management activities that take place during a project, and to focus the attention of the project team on those activities that are necessary during that period. The decision to move from one phase to the next is taken at a Phase Gate and depends on whether the goals of that phase has been satisfactorily achieved.
The PM² Processes
The PM² methodology defines a set of project management processes and activities which are carried out throughout the life of the project; in most cases, they are executed in an iterative manner. The management processes are detailed in the 6 PM² management plans and in the Monitor & Control process group.
The PM² Artifacts
The PM² methodology proposes the creation of a set of Artifacts that facilitate the definition, management and communication of projects. PM² offers a complete set of project templates along with detailed guidelines on how to use them.
The PM² mindsets
The PM² mindsets are the attitudes and behaviors that help project teams focus on those things that are crucial for the achieving of the project’s goals. Together, they help navigate the complexities of managing projects in Organizations and make the PM² methodology both more effective and complete.
The purpose of OpenPM² is to empower project teams to manage their projects effectively and deliver real value to their organizations and stakeholders. By combining the PM² methodology with OpenProject’s open source project management software, teams benefit from a powerful framework supported by a collaborative, transparent, and secure tool.
This combination transforms methodology into practice, enabling better planning, communication, and accountability while strengthening digital sovereignty and long-term project success. OpenProject supports the main PM² use cases, lifecycle, processes as well as artefacts. OpenProject and OpenPM² have a shared mindset.
In Germany, the PM² methodology was adapted to the specific needs of public administrations and further developed into PMflex. The framework provides practical guidance and checklists for managing portfolios, programmes, and projects in a consistent way. This enables administrations to work more efficiently and transparently across all levels.
OpenProject supports the main PMflex use cases and regarding portfolios, programs, and project management as well as agile frameworks.
Project Planning
Collaboration
Dashboards
Time tracking
Agile & Scrum
Bug tracking
Wiki
Software needs to be free and open – and so do project management methodologies.
Joining forces with the PM² Alliance was a very easy decision to make. We are now in a position to integrate some of the of the PM² methodology’s most powerful best practices and templates into our software. We share a common vision as well as a passion for providing project teams with solutions that enable better project management with minimum upfront effort and costs.
Our goal? To help increase the effectiveness, efficiency and success of our clients’ projects, while introducing them to a powerful yet simple methodology which we have seamlessly integrated into our software application.
Learn more about PM²
The PM² Alliance regularly organizes online webinars on various Project Management related topics.
They host some of the top experts in the field who will share their expertise collaboratively with their online audience.
