1. Project Managers and Organization

2. Project Managers (PM)
Responsible for Implementing and Completing Project.
Initial Tasks: Preliminary Budget, Schedule, Personnel, Know Client, Ensure Resources Available, Take Care of Details Needed for Project.
Later Refines Plans and Schedules Reallocation of Resources. Meets with Those Affected by Project.
Unlike Functional Manager, PM is More Generalist than Specialist; is Skilled in Synthesis. PM is Facilitator: Facilitates Cooperation.

3. PM Detailed Responsibilities
Acquiring Adequate Resources
Acquiring and Motivating Personnel
Dealing with Obstacles
Making Tradeoffs
Dealing with Risk of Failure
Communication
Negotiation

4. Project Teams Should Include
Project Manager
Engineer
Manufacturing / Production Manager
Field Manager
Contract Administrator
Controller / Accountant
Support Services
Staff

5. Management Styles that Work
Theory Z (W. Ouchi) vs. Theory X and Theory Y
Management by Objectives (P. Drucker)

6. Organizational Problems
How to Tie Project to Parent Firm
How to Organize Project Itself

7. Organizational Approaches
1. Project as Functional Division – Project is Part (Appendix) of Functional Divisions. PM Normally Does Not Have Full Responsibility for Projects.
2. Project Organization – Project is Self-Contained. PM Has Full Line Authority

8. Functional Organization

9. Functional Organization

10. Project Organization

11. Organizational Approaches
3. Matrix Organization – Combination of Functional and Project Organizations. Activities are Responsibility of PM and Line Managers.
4. Mixed Organization – Combination of 1,2,and 3.

12. Matrix Organization

13. Mixed Organization