One tool for all projects

PMPeople is a global tool for the professional management of any project in any organization —public or private, for profit or non-profit— in any industry, anywhere.

We already have collaborative tools to manage tasks, messages, emails, photos, files, videos, notes, etc. Nowadays, professional project managers need to use these kinds of tools to control teamwork, but they are not sufficient to meet the project management goals, mainly to get projects finished on time and on budget.

For project teams to succeed, many tools and techniques are needed. Professional project managers are supposed to know them properly. Specifically, we need to measure project performance regularly. That is, in project review meetings, we need to report project performance in front of a steering committee and propose corrective actions to get the project back on track.

There are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to manage resources, products, clients, procurement, sales, logistics, supplies, income, expenses, invoices, wages, etc. These tools are fit to manage all services and operations at every organization. Most of them include project management features, but they were not intended for professional project management, though.

To fill this gap between ERP and collaborative tools, covering the specific needs for professional project management, PPM tools came up. PPM stands for Project Portfolio Management. Most of them are to be customized at each organization. They do not allow free access for many project stakeholders. Professional project managers do not use many features. They are overwhelmed with rich interfaces impossible to use in mobile, etc. Many PPM solutions copied or extended pre-existent enterprise software from ERP, scheduling, business process management, business intelligence, issue tracking, teamwork collaboration, etc.

Projects have their specific entity: specialized language, roles, phases, grouping structures, techniques to manage project goals, etc. On the other hand, projects are different from each other: success depends deeply on effective communication, project management experience, interpersonal and team skills. Project success has mainly to do with effective people collaboration.

In the project economy, project performance will set the competitive edge. Professional project managers are more and more valued, and they get more responsibilities. From just taking orders from sponsor in the past, now they are expected to be more proactive, to relate directly to top managers, to anticipate problems and take advantage of opportunities, all this inside highly collaborative environments with real-time information needs.

Chances are project managers are never replaced by robots. Organizations, however, do not want to “reinvent the wheel”: they need to apply project lessons learned and good practice endorsed by standards. When projects fail badly, with huge delay or over cost, causes are not found in tools or methodologies. Any tool should be a means to an end. Project management future tools will not replace project managers. Instead, tools will help project managers to be more effective as project managers: knowledge base repositories for lessons learned and risks, interactive feedback platforms, business intelligence, chatbots, voice assistants, AI, big data, deep learning, blockchain, etc. Tools will unify project management at all kinds of organizations, public or private.

Asana is aimed to manage online all tasks of all teams in the world, Slack to manage all messages, Google Mail for all emails, Dropbox for all documents, YouTube for all videos, Evernote for all notes, etc. PMPeople is aimed to unify professional project management of all kinds of projects by these differential points:

• Designed by and for professional project managers, following professional project management standards.
• Online productivity—less meetings, less documents, less workflows—through distributed collaboration among 12 specialized roles: Administrator (supporting and consulting services by PMPeople software provider company), Organization Owner, 6 roles on demand management and 5 roles on supply management.
• Freemium product—unlimited time, unlimited users, only managers must pay—usable via web and mobile application.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes PMPeople different from ERP and collaboration tools?

Unlike ERP and basic collaboration tools, PMPeople is purpose-built for professional project management with role-based collaboration and standards alignment.

Is PMPeople only for large enterprises or specific industries?

No. PMPeople is designed for any organization—public or private, large or small, in any industry—offering scalable, freemium project management capabilities.

How does PMPeople support modern project managers?

PMPeople empowers project managers with specialized roles, mobile/web access, real-time reporting, and tools aligned with PMI standards to improve performance.