Project Management Environments

Question 1

Balanced matrix structure

Answer 1

An organization where organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers and the project managers share the project power.

Question 2

Enterprise environmental factors

Answer 2

Conditions that affect how the project manager may manage the project. Enterprise environmental factors come from within the project, such as policy, or they be external to the organization, such as law or regulation.

Question 3

Hybrid structure

Answer 3

An organization that creates a blend of
the functional, matrix, and project-oriented
structures.

Question 4

Organic or simple

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Organizational process assets

Answer 5

Organizational process assets include
organizational processes, policies,
procedures, and items from a corporate
knowledge base. Organizational process
assets are grouped into two categories to
consider: processes, policies and
procedures, and organizational
knowledge bases.

Question 6

Project-oriented structure

Answer 6

An organization 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.

Question 7

Strong matrix structure

Answer 7

An organization where organizational
resources are pooled into one project
team, but the functional managers have
less project power than the project
manager.

Question 8

Weak matrix structure

Answer 8

An organization where organizational
resources are pooled into one project
team, but the functional managers have
more project power than the project
manager.