Project Management Environments Flashcards
Organization where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers and the project managers share the project power.
Balanced Matrix Structure
Describes the culture and the styles of an organization. Such as work ethics, hours, view of authority, and shared values, can affect how the project is managed.
Cultural Norms
Conditions that affect how the PM may manage the project. These come from within the project, such as policy, or they be external to the organization, such as a law or regulation
Enterprise Environmental Factors
An organization that is divided into functions, and each employee has one clear functional manager. Each department acts indepedently of the other departments. A PM in this structure has little to no power and may be called a PC
Functional Structure
Governance Framework
Describes the rules, policies, and procedures that people within an organization abide by. This addresses the organization, but also addreses portfolios, programs and projects.
An organization that creates a blend of the functional, matrix, and project-oriented structures
Hybrid Structure
Multidivisional Structure
Describes organizations that have duplication of efforts within the org, but not within each department or division of the org. PM has little authority in this structure and the functional manager controls the project budget
Describes a loosely organized business or organization. Likely aren’t big formal departments and people work alongside one another regardless of roles and titles. The PM likely has little control over the project resources and may not be called a PM
Organic or Simple
Includes organizatonal processes, policies, procedures, and items from a corp knowledge base. These are grouped into two categories to consider : Processes, policies, and procedures and organizational knowledge bases
Organizational process assets
The databases, files and historical info that you can use to help better plan and manage your projects. This is an OPA that is created internally to your org through the ongoing work of ops and other projects
Organizational Knowledge Repositories
A system can create things by working with multiple components that the individual components could not create alone. The structure of the org and the governance framework creates constraints that affect how the PM makes decisions within the project.
Organizational System
A business unit that centralizes the ops and procedures of all the projects within an org. Can be controlling, supportive, or directive
Project Management Office
An org that assigns a project team to one project for the duration of the project life cycle. The PM has high to almost complete project power
Project-oriented Structure
An org where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have less project power than the PM
Strong Matrix Structure
Uses a network structure to communicate and interact with other groups and departments. A POC exists for each department and these department POC’s receive and send all messages for the department
Virtual Organizaiton
