Structures in the organization

Every structure in the organization is limited by the reserves and can be divided into few categories from functional to projects orientated. Table below shows relationshiops between the main project's features and structure of the organization.

Organizational Structure
As you can see from this table organizations that are mostly concentrated on projects are located on the right sight. Strong matrix and projectized are the best examples in this case. There are also some intermediate structures.

In a typical functional organization each employed person has one chief. Members of the team can be grouped by specialization for example: production, service, technical support, finance. Projects in such organisations are implemented in a limited range.

On the contrary to the functional organization the situation looks in projectized organization. In this case lots of organization's reserves are engaged in project, members of the team are collocated and managers of the project are self-reliance in their decisions.

You can also find quite popular matrix organization with some variations. This is an intermediate structure between functional and projectized organization. In a classical balanced matrix the role of project manager is significant however he has not the full control over the project and its budget.

Today lots of organisations have a combination of all theses structures at diverse levels.

source: PMP® Resources
published: 2009-09-29 09:34:21

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