Lecture Project management in practice (6th Edition) – Chapter 2: The manager, the organization, and the team

The following will be discussed in this chapter: The PM’s roles, the PM’s responsibilities to the project, selection of a project manager, project management as a profession, fitting projects into the parent organization, the project team, multidisciplinary teams - balancing pleasure and pain.

Manager

• Stakeholder issue log should also be 

maintained to catalog issues that arise and 

how they were resoloved

(Figure 2­2)

Example Commitment  Assessment Matrix (Figure 2­3)

• Proactively addressing stakeholder concerns 

before they become major issues

Management

• Must keep senior management up to date on the state of the project

• Particularly important to keep management 

informed of any problems

– Or any likely to affect the project in the future

• Never let the boss be surprised

The Project Manager’s  Responsibilities to the Project

The Project Manager’s  Responsibilities to the Project Continued

Conflict

Growing Importance of  Multicultural Projects

Pure Project Organization

Functional Project Organization

Matrix Project Organization

Mixed Organizational Systems