Lecture Project management in practice (Fifth 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.

• Facilitator

• Must ensure that those working on project have the  appropriate knowledge, resources, and time to accomplish  their responsibilities

• Must understand how everything impacts the overall project

Manager

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

Growing Importance of  Multicultural Projects

Pure Project Organization

Functional Project Organization

Matrix Project Organization

Mixed Organizational Systems

Project Management