Framework of Organization

2. Apply the four frames of organizations to a possible project that involves the development of a new technology like mobile banking, online retail, or social media. Work with two other class members in a virtual environment on this exercise. Write a short paper or presentation that summarizes your analysis and opinions of how working virtually helped or hindered your results.

2. Explain the four frames of organizations. How can they help project managers understand

the organizational context for their projects?

The four frames of the organizations are: Structural frame, Human resources frame, Political frame, and Symbolic frame.

All these four frames play a very important role for both the small project as well as for the long project. Small project has a timeline for few days with small budget and the large project requires longer time period project with big amount of investment. These four frames also plays a vital role for the successful completion of the project within the specified period of time. Every Project Manager (PM) should have clear understanding of these four frames to lead his/her team successfully. The person should know how to organize the team, understand the pros and cons of each team members, identify the strength and weaknesses of the team members, the relationship among team members as well as understand the external contractors.

Let's take an example of mid-sized project for an InfoSec company (ABC Company) whose main business is to design and deploy datacenter, receive the contract for design to implement secure datacenter for SMB Company. The first thing the ABC Company will do is create a team and assign a Project Manager for the Project. The PM will be assigned along with the team members. While assigning the team members it is very important to follow the rules of four frames of organizations.

Firstly talking about the Structural frame, this deals with the structure of the organization. But in this case I am relating it...