CH02 Organizational Influences and project life cycle Flashcards
Organizational influences of project management
Organizational cultures and styles
organizational communications
structure of the organization
Organizational culture
Values business model policies, methods, and processes view of authority work ethics and workouts
Organizational structures and project management power
projectized strong matrix balanced matrix week matrix function
What are enterprise environmental factors
Organizational policies industry standards and regulations rules of the project manager must abide by processes that must be followed geographic distribution of facilities marketplace conditions
Project stakeholders and governance
Interested parties in the project existence affected by the project can affect the project project team project manager
Project stakeholder
Anyone who’s affected by the project
positive stakeholders
negative stakeholders
neutral stakeholders
Common project stakeholders
Sponsor customer users sellers business partners organization groups functional managers
What is project governance
Deliverable acceptance criteria Escalation process relationship amoung projects, programs, project team, stakeholders process for communicating information decision-making process project lifecycle approach process for stage gate or phase reviews control and oversight of the project
Establishing ground rules
Once the ground rules have been established, it’s the responsibility of the entire project team to enforce the rules
What equates to project success
Meeting project objectives: scope costs schedule quality resources risk
What are Predictive lifecycles
Plan driven
waterfall approach
predict the project lifecycle
changes to scope are tightly controlled
Project phase relationships
Sequential relationship
overlapping relationship
iterative relationship
Iterative and incremental lifecycles
Phase repeat through iterations
iterations create deliverables
detailed scope is elaborated for each iteration
changes to the project scope are expected
Adaptive lifecycles
Change driven agile project management rapid iterations or project work backlog of requirements changes to the project scope are expected
