Pm586 Course Project

Course Project Week 6 Deliverables

Week 6 Assignment

Sunday, January 15, 2012

PM586ON – Project Management Systems

Organizational Structures Essay

The Huntsville project is going to be managed by a spectrum of project participants in a variety of combinations. Of course, the organizational structure for managing these types of project may vary from project to project due to the organizations objectives and nature of the implementation project, this particular structure will be setup as a Matrix organization. Each piece of this project will be staffed by existing personnel in functional divisions, ad-hoc basis, consultants, and contracted vendors. Each area will be specialized and brought together based on similar skills. For example, all engineers may be in one building engineering department (contracted) and report to their company’s engineering manager, but these building engineers may be assigned to different projects and report to different manager or project manager when trying to complete project tasks. So the need is for people to work under several managers to get the Huntsville project done.

The advantages of using a Matrix Organization for this project are there is flexibility in bringing in specialized people depending on the needs of the project. Using the project team dynamically is an advantage and the ability to view problems through the eyes of specialists that have been brought together on the Hunstville project. There are better communication lines and the different specialized groups are overseen by managers with similar skill sets and these managers communicate to the project manager. This allows the project manager to be directly responsible for the project but not have to have all of the skills required to run the show.

The disadvantage is that since there are multiple managers there could be conflicts created when top line managers don’t agree on how something should be done especially over allocation of...