Ch 2 Flashcards
Balanced Matrix Structure
An organization where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers and the project managers share the project power.
Cultural Norms
Cultural norms describe the culture and the styles of an organization. Such as work ethics, hours, view of authority and shared values can affect how th e project is managed.
Enterprise environmental factors (EEFs)
Conditions that affect how the project manager may manage the project. Enterprise environmental factors come from within the project, such as policy, or they can be external to the organization, such as law or regulation.
nction Structure
an organization that is devided into functions, and each employee has one clear functional manager, Each department acts independently of the other deparments. A project manager in this structure has little to no power and may be called a project coordinator.
Governance framework
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 the governance frame work addresses alignment with organizational vision, risk management, performance factors and communication.
hybrid structure
an organization that creates a blend of the functional, matrix, and project oriented structures
multidivisional structure
describe organizations that have duplication of efforts within the organization, but not within each department or division of the organization. PM has little authority in this structure and the functional manager controls the project budget.
organic or simple
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. PM likely has little control over the project resources and may not be called a pm
organizational process assets
include organizational processes, policies, procedures and items form a corportate knowledge base. Assets are grouped into 2 categories to consider: processes, poliies and procedures and organizational knowledge bases
organizational knowledge repositories
are the databases, files and historcal information you can use to help better plan and manage you projects. this is an organizational process asset that is created internally to your organization through the ongoing work of operations and other projects.
organizational system
asystem can create things by working with multiple components that the individual compoents count not create if they worked alone. the structure of the organization and the governance framework creates constraints that affect how the PM makes decisions within the project. the system directly affects how the PM utilizes their power, influence, leadership and even political capital to get things done int he environment
project oriented structure
an organization that assigns a dproject team to one project for the duration of the project life cycle. the PM has hight o almost complete project power
trong matrix structure
an organization where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have less project power than the project manager
virtual organization
uses a network structure to communicate and interact with other groups and departments. a point of contact exits for each department and these department point of contact received and send all messages for the department.
