Roles and Organizations Flashcards
Functional Manager
Control and provide resources to PM’s
Operations Management
Manage an organizations day to day activities
Project management activities
scheduling, cost, budgeting, risk issues and change management
Does project expediter have decision making capabilities?
NO and they are apart of the project when they dont have a full team
Sponsor
Responsible for providing resources and support on the project. Senior management SUPPORTs the sponsor
Project team members
Analysts, programmers, technical writers, construction personnel and testers
Can stakeholders be members of the project team?
YES
Who does senior management support?
Sponsor, project charter, and the project
How does senior management support?
Assists with prioritizing items and coordinating with other groups
PM Leadership Skills
Resilience, critical thinking, negotiation, communicating effectively, problem solving, and interpersonal skills
Actor
Representative aka a customer
Agile coach
Experienced leader who directs the team to Agile
Business owner
Scrum role that exists outside of the team that represents management; sponsor, lead, stakeholder or owner of the project
Core team (Agile)
Sponsor, project management, developers, quality assurance ppl, architecture experts, product manager, business knowledge experts
Customer (Agile)
Creates the vision, creating or prioritizing user stories and the product backlog, writing acceptance tests and accepting completed work (purchaser or user)
Developer
Programmer
Portfolio owner (Agile)
The person responsible for the strategy, vision, and execution of a portfolio
Product Owner
Manages the vision, ROI, backlog and authority to MAKE DECISIONS
Programmer-Coach
Senior programmer that guides the team in applying XP practices
Scribe
The person who documents meetings and modeling sessions
Scrum team
Ppl who do the work of the sprint
Scrummaster
SERVANT leader and facilitator who makes sure the Scrum process is followed, is positive, and improving
Servant leader
Leader who is focused on what the team needs, removing roadblocks, and performing tasks that will support and improve team productivity
Sprint team
Product owner, developers, scrummaster and testers
Subject matter expert
Person who has deep, specialized knowledge of a subject
Organizational structures
Functional, weak matrix, balanced matrix, strong matrix, projectized, multi-divisional
Functional
Operations where people of a similar skill set are grouped together and managed by someone with the same skill set
What is a functional org main focus?
Operations and daily repetitive activities, then projects
Matrix drawback
Team member may report to more than one manager, which can conflict priorties
Who controls the project in a Weak Matrix?
Functional manager
Roles in a Balanced matrix
Functional manager controls resources and PM delivers project results
Who controls the project in a strong matrix?
Project manager
Projectized
Primary focus in the PROJECT
Who controls the project in an organic organization?
Owner
Who controls the project in a virtual organization?
Mixed
Hybrid organization
Agile and waterfall. Everything is mixed
PMO
High authority and project manager controls the project
