Project Organizational

Structures
Project Organizational Structures
• Organizational Environmental Factors
• Organizational structure
• Organizational culture
Organizational Environmental Factors
• Culture
• Government regulation
• Geographic distribution: single location or distributed world-wide
• Infrastructure: Access to tools and resources
• Human resources: How organization is structured
• Market conditions: Sellers market or buyers market
• Political climate: primarily inside organization.
Organizational structures
• Functional :
• Not a professional PM
• Not a full time PM
• Due to operational responsibilities PM and staff are often not focused
• Staff may not have required skills for the project
• Matrix (Weak)
• Not a professional PM
• Not a full time PM
• PM and staff are often not focused
• Better skills are available but at the cost of lack of control
Organizational structures
• Matrix (Balanced)
• Focused Professional PM
• Full time PM
• Staff are often not focused
• Better skills are available but at the cost of lack of control
• Matrix (Strong)
• Focused Professional PM
• Full time PM
• Staff are often not focused
• Better skills are available
• Lack of control improves
Project based Matrix
• Project
• Focused Professional PM
• Full time PM
• Staff are focused
• Better skills are available
• Total control on staff
Strong Matrix