2 - Project Management Environments Flashcards
An organization structure 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. Work ethics, hours, view of authority, and shared values, can affect how the project is managed.
Cultural Norms
Conditions that affect how the project manager may manage the project. May come from within the project, such as policy, or they may be external to the organization, such as law or regulation.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
An organization that is divided into functions, and each employee has one clear functional manager. Each department acts independently of the other departments. A project manager in this structure has little to no power and may be called a project coordinator.
Functional Structure
Describes the rules, policies, and procedures that people within an organization abide by. Addresses the organization, but also address portfolios, programs, and projects. Regarding portfolios, programs, and projects, this addresses alignment with organizational vision, risk management, performance factors, and communication.
Governance Framework
An organization that creates a blend of the functional, matrix, and project-oriented structures.
Hybrid Structure
Describes organizations that have duplication of efforts within the organization, but not within each department or division of the organization. Project manager has little authority in this structure and the functional manager controls the project budget.
Multidivisional Structure
Describes a loosely organized business or organization. There likely aren’t big formal departments and people work alongside one another regardless of roles and titles. The project manager likely has little control over the project resources and may not be called a project manager.
Organic or Simple
Include organizational processes, policies, procedures, and items from a corporate knowledge repository. Grouped into two categories to consider: processes, policies & procedures, and organizational knowledge bases.
Organizational process assets
The databases, files, and historical information that you can use to help better plan and manage your projects. These are organizational process assets that are created internally to your organization through the ongoing work of operations and other projects.
Organizational Knowledge Repositories
A business unit that centralizes the operations and procedures of all projects within the organization. Can be supportive, controlling, or directive.
Project Management Office (PMO)
An organization structure that assigns a project team to one project for the duration of the project life cycle. The project manager has high-to-almost-complete project power.
Project-Oriented Structure
An organization structure where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have less project power than the project manager.
Strong Matrix Structure
Uses a network structure to communicate and interact with other groups and departments. A point of contact exists for each department and these department point of contact receive and send all messages for the department.
Virtual Organization
An organization structure where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have more project power than the project manager.
Weak Matrix Structure
