Project organization
A part of understanding the context under purpose.
Abstract
Project managers are highly dependent on the organization of their project to successfully achieve its defined objectives with respect to its scope, schedule and resources. To achieve efficient project organization, the project manager needs to consider various project properties. First, project authority should be clearly communicated throughout the project team. This implies that each project team member knows their respective responsibilities. An effective way to vizualize and hence intuitively communicate the organizational structure alog with its division of authority is using organization charts (or organigrams). However, this tool illustrates lines between each
is limited due to its simplicity
This is sufficiently obtained through clear lines of authority throughout the project team along with
Table of contents:
Big idea
- What is project organization (including essential aspects described), and what is its purpose (why is it important)?
- What consequences occur if project organization is neglected?
- What are the current modern and updated ways of doing this? (This have will be further discussed in applications).
Application
- How should project managers approach project organization?
- What do they need to reflect upon before diving into different methods and tools?
- What different methods/tools exist, and what characterizes each of them?
Limitations
- Critical reflection regarding project organization in general.
- What can each tool/method do, and under what circumstances should they be applied?
- Which tools/methods are a part of the current standards of project organization, and which ones extend the current standards of project organization.
Annotated bibliography
References
- Project Management by Dennis Lock (2013): A little bit old. Are the methods still the modern ones?
