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Digital EUPM2 Guide

• 1 Introduction
• 2 EU-funding Programs and Projects
• 3 Overview
• 4 Governance and Project Organisation
• 5 Initiating Phase – Activities and Artefacts
• 6 Planning Phase – Activities and Artefacts
• 7 Executing Phase – Activities and Artefacts
• 8 Closing Phase – Activities and Artefacts
• Post-closing obligations
• 9 Monitoring and Control – Activities and Artefacts
• Appendixes

3.2.7 The PM² Mindsets

The PM² Mindsets are the attitudes and behaviours that help project teams focus on what is crucial to achieving their project’s goals. They help project teams navigate the complexities of managing projects in organisations and make the EUPM² Guide both more effective and complete.

Thus, EU Project Managers (EUPMs), Partner EU Project Managers, (PtEUPM), and project teams that practise EUPM² Guide:

1. Apply PM² best practices to manage their projects.
2. Remain mindful that project management methodologies are there to serve projects and not the other way around.
3. Maintain an outcomes orientation in relation to all projects and project management activities.
4. Are committed to delivering project results with maximum value rather than just following plans.
5. Foster a project culture of collaboration, clear communication, and accountability.
6. Assign project roles to the most appropriate people for the benefit of the project.
7. Balance in the most productive way the often-conflicting project management “Ps” of product, purpose, process, plan, people, pleasure/pain, participation, perception, and politics.
8. Invest in developing technical and behavioural competences to become better project contributors.
9. Involve project stakeholders in the organisational change needed to maximise project benefits.
10. Share knowledge, actively manage Lessons Learned, and contribute to the improvement of project management within their organisations.
11. Are oriented to keep at all times an ethical and professional behaviour.

The PM² Mindsets:

• Help project teams navigate through the complexities of project realities.
• Help project teams (re)position project management goals in a wider organisational context.
• Remind project teams what is important for project success.
• Are useful reminders of effective attitudes and behaviours.

To remain mindful of the PM² Mindsets, EU Project Managers (EUPMs), Partner EU Project Managers (PtEUPM), and project teams that practise PM² should ask themselves the following important Infrequently Asked Questions (IAQs):

• Do we know what we are doing? Develop a clear and shared project vision. Manage the project using a holistic approach and optimise the whole project, not just parts of it.
• Do we know why we are doing it? Does anyone really care? Make sure your project matters. Understand its goals, value, and impact, and how it relates to the organisational strategy.
• Are the right people involved? People make projects work. The primary criterion for involving people and assigning project roles should be to serve the needs and objectives of the project.
• Do we know who is doing what? Clearly define and understand roles, responsibilities and accountabilities.
• Deliver at any cost or risk? Avoid high-risk behaviour and tactics. Always keep in mind that it is not just about the end result - how you get there also matters.
• Is this a task for “them” or for “us”? Make sure that all project partners work as one team towards a common goal. Real teamwork really works; so foster clear, effective and frequent communication.
• Have we improved? Commit to ongoing self- and organisational improvement by gathering and sharing knowledge. Project teams should reflect on how they can become more effective and adjust their behaviour accordingly.

3.2.6 Phases Gates/Stages and Approvals

4 Governance and Project Organisation