The Entrepreneurial PM

The Entrepreneurial PM Overview

Project Entrepreneurship: Beyond Management and Leadership

V. Srinivasa Rao

An entrepreneurial project mindset is an “executive mindset for the project manager,” with a focus on delivering high value to the customer and the organization. With project entrepreneurship, project ownership is a priority, innovation is strong, and alternative techniques are used for continuous improvement of delivery. An entrepreneurial PM embraces opportunity risk and builds reusable assets to ensure repeatable success of future projects.
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Top Five Project Portfolio Management Trends for 2014

IT Business Edge

This article discusses the significance that project entrepreneurialship will have for project portfolio
management (PPM).
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Entrepreneurial Project Management: Concept Overview

Andrius Gedvilas

This provides an overview and a model of the entrepreneurial project management (EPM) concept.
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Entrepreneurial PMO

Jane Walton, Managing Director Clarity

This is a final paper in a series about maturing the Project Management Office (PMO) to meet the challenge of making the connection between project and business success. It discusses three maturity dimensions: performance and risk management, resource management, and business value management.
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Exploring PPM Decisions: the Role of Intuition and Entrepreneurship in Project Portfolio Outcomes

G J Paternoster, R A Hunt R A and C P Killen

This white paper discusses the role of entrepreneurship in project portfolio outcomes.
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The 7 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Joe Robinson

Entrepreneurs share a collection of distinguishing traits that are crucial to a successful venture. Studies have found that they score higher on traits such as curiosity, innovation, self-discipline, and motivation and lower on neuroticism than corporate managers.
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How To Think Like an Entrepreneur

Gurbaksh Chahal, Chairman & CEO at RadiumOne

This LinkedIn article tells us how to think like an entrepreneur and reminds each of us that "life only begins at the end of your comfort zone."
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Project Managers as Entrepreneurs

Lisa Blanton

For companies to achieve a competetive advantage via speed to market, they must empower their project managers to develop behaviors similar to entrepreneurs. This article lists the common excuses for project failure, with a corresponding entrepreneurial response.
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