PMaaS stands out for its ability to tailor its offerings precisely to a project’s demands, ensuring that projects are completed and excel in their execution. Navigating the complexities of large-scale projects—such as mergers, acquisitions, or system overhauls—presents a unique set of challenges, particularly when managing project costs effectively.  Many organizations find themselves in a tightrope walk, balancing project scopes with budget constraints. Projects larger in size and complexity especially put you to the test, revealing limitations in scalability, flexibility, and the abilit ..read more

A company spends years developing a product. The potential rewards are enormous, but so are the risks. Company executives know they are accountable for the product’s timely rollout—as well as for its market success. They recognize that their level of resources and project management methods aren’t going to be sufficient to meet the stringent deadlines and unique challenges of this major endeavor—Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) offers them a lifeline. If you recognize your organization in this scenario, then PMaaS may be right for you. PMaaS is a type of PM consulting, but it's unique i ..read more

A step-by-step view of a PMaaS engagement Lacking flexibility and adaptability in project management is a major cause of unsuccessful projects, long timelines, and budget overruns, especially in times of change and major business shifts. A new, scalable solution is Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). PMaaS manages all of the challenges of staffing, resource allocation, and remote work communication.  While there is no standard definition or framework for PMaaS implementation, through experience PM Solutions has developed a three-phase process.  Phase 1: Alignment and Proof ..read more

PMaaS isn't just about resource management. The deadline for a critical project, one that could make or break your company's future, is on the horizon. Facing the dual challenges of urgency and complexity, project management leadership makes a game-changing decision: to embrace Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Why PMaaS? For project managers and PMOs, the task of navigating through significant and fast-paced changes while managing high-stakes projects is daunting. Pressure on resources can sometimes lead to significant delays and strain on the budget.  This is where PMaaS comes in ..read more

PMaaS is designed to entirely take the responsibility of onboarding, contract writing, and more off your plate and integrate project management professionals into your team with minimal disruption. You’re in a race against time. You know you need to fill about two dozen PM roles. You also know how that will stress your HR team and strangle budgets. As CEO, you are responsible for steering the company’s vision, reassuring stakeholders, and ensuring the financial health of the merger.  Simultaneously, the intricate task of integrating systems, cultures, and processes demands meticulous proj ..read more

Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) presents an innovative approach to tackle the intricate staffing challenges in project management, providing a suite of services designed to streamline and enhance your hiring process. You've just greenlit a new EPR system implementation.  Now, you need to make it happen.  The weight of ensuring the implementation goes smoothly and efficiently falls squarely on your shoulders, and you know you need more project management support to make it happen. Staffing Challenges in Project Management Navigating the complexities of project management, espe ..read more

Agile, hybrid, AI, PMaaS: Take the research survey to help us develop a picture of the trends! One of the most gratifying things about working for the same organization for decades—something I’d never thought would be possible, but here I am, 24 years later—is that it gives you the ability to see trends and patterns that a shorter time-box would obscure. One of the things that has become apparent about PM Solutions is that we have had an almost uncanny ability to predict important shifts in project management practices years before they become commonly accepted. Sometimes this has worked in ou ..read more

The concept of partnership is central to a PMaaS engagement. Today’s publication release from PM Solutions gives you a deep dive into the way we practice Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Describing a timeline of the process and giving some background on the personnel we deploy, this paper above all focuses on the important concept of partnership as central to a PMaaS engagement. While much of the literature we see online about PMaaS characterizes this flavor of project management consulting as “outsourcing,” PM Solutions VP, Client Success, Eric Foss sees things differently. “When you ..read more

I'm glad PMI added "Uncertainty" to the PMBOK. As 2023 comes to a close, my first thought is I’m glad PMI added “Uncertainty” to the PMBOK Guide. The stock market, inexplicably soaring in the face of gloom from economists and pundits; a globe beset by seemingly unresolvable conflicts; a new technology that even its inventors express concern about, and which may, even as I write, be subtly changing the way we work, do business, or even perceive the world … all these things display the kind of uncertainty that risk managers exist to assess and mitigate, if possible. Not all uncertainty is bad, o ..read more

I thought it would be interesting to hop in my wayback machine—otherwise known as a notebook (yes, I am that dinosaur, the old reporter with the paper and pen archives) —and see how what I was hearing in 2022 at the PMI Global Summit in Las Vegas might have presaged what I heard a few weeks ago in Atlanta. And—surprise!—on the first page, I found that futurist Amy Webb, last year’s keynote, referred to project management as a “superpower.” There’s that word again. If we aren’t careful, people are going to actually start expecting project managers to save the world. The mood and message of PMI ..read more