Project Management Environments 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
Describes the culture and styles of an organization. Work ethics, hours, view of authority, and shared values can affect how the project is managed.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Conditions that affect how the project manager may manage the project. Come from within the project, such as policy, or they may be external, such as law or regulation.
Functional Structure
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.
Governance Framework
Describes the rules, policies, and procedures that people within an organization abide by. Addresses the organization, but also addresses portfolios, programs, and projects. Regarding these, it addresses alignment with organization vision, risk management, performance factors, and communication.
Hybrid Structure
An organization that creates a blend of the functional, matrix, and project-oriented structures.
Multi-divisional 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.
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. The project manager likely has little control over the project resources and may not be called a project manager.
Organizational Process Assets
Includes organizational processes, policies, procedures, and items from a corporate knowledge base. Grouped into two categories to consider: processes, policies, and procedures and organizational knowledge bases.
Organizational Knowledge Repositories
The databases, files, and historical information that you can use to help better plan and manage your 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
It can create things by working with multiple components that the individual components could not create if they worked alone. The structure of the organization and the governance framework creates constraints that affect how the project manager makes decisions within the project. It directly affects how the project manager utilizes their power, influence, leadership, and even political capital, to get things done in the environment.
Project Management Office (PMO)
A business unit that centralizes the operations and procedures of all projects within the organization. It can be supportive, controlling, or directive.
Project-Oriented Structure
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.
Strong 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 exists for each department and these department points of contact receive and send all messages for the department.
