Yes, We're Still Talking About Resource Management ... But We Should Also Be Talking About PMaaS

January 14, 2025 | by Carrie Capili

It’s 2025 and what challenge is on your plate yet again?

If you said resource management, you’re in good company even though it’s not where you want to be.

For the past 25 years, PM Solutions has been conducting research on various aspects of project management, and every year without fail, the poorest scoring practices in these studies have been resource management practices. Even among high performers, participants in our studies identified resource management among their biggest challenges. And every year when asked what they would work to improve in the coming 12 months, participants said resource management, and every year they failed.

It’s that gap that always exists between what we think we can achieve and what we can actually achieve.

And there is no shortage of research, technology, software, you name it, available to help you manage your resources. In fact, there are probably too many options to choose from, which becomes its own resource management issue.

So let’s start simple.

At PM Solutions, we have always taken a broader view of what comprises resource management. For us, it's an umbrella term that covers many related people-management topics. From identifying competency to role definition to training to ameliorating change resistance, we focus on how the PMO can improve the work lives of project managers, as well as value delivery for organizations, by making things like hiring, development, rewards, and performance measurement, more human-centric and more project-centric.

But this may only help in a single organization, and maybe only if they have a highly capable PMO. What about everyone else?  

Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) takes this approach a step further. With PMaaS, a provider who is all about project management and project managers handles all the details that have previously fallen to HR departments who may not be confident in how the project manager role differs from other organizational niches. This saves money for the client organization, of course, but it also saves headaches for the project managers. A project manager working under the PMaaS structure can go from project to project, from company to company without jarring shifts in work and personal lives. This is a win-win strategy for organizations and for the project managers they need to succeed.

PMaaS is an approach to resource management that allows you to focus your energy on your business strategy while we offer our core competency of project and program management. It’s putting the right people in the right places in the best way possible.

In 2026, we’ll come back and ask what challenge is on your plate. And if you’ve really committed to tackling the challenge of resource management, we’ll bet that your organization has made the shift to the more people-centric and project-centric focus of PMaaS. Check back in for those success stories!

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