- If there are dedicated teams for each of the organisational project, led by a project manager having full control over the project, this is a Projectised organisation.
- Team are organised around projects, when a project is done the team is released and the team members move to another project.
- If the project team is a 100% subset of a functional department (e.g., HR, operations, sales, customer service, finance etc.) and is managed by the departmental manager directly, this is a functional organisation.
- Project Management decisions need to be cleared with functional managers.
- Project Managers are assistants to the functional managers in getting the work done.
- Project managers spend a lot of time doing administrative tasks and often only work as Project Manager Part of that time.
- All the project work typically happens within a particular department and that department’s Manager is completely in charge of everything.
Matrix
Strong Matrix
- If the project manager/expediter has more control over the project than the functional manager, the organisation is strong matrix.
#Team Still Report to both the managers
Balance matrix
- If the control is balanced between the project manager/expediter and the functional manager, the organisation is balanced matrix.
Weak Matrix
- If the project manager/expediter has less control over the project than the functional manager, the organisation is weak matrix
#Leading the annual performance review of project team members is the Duty of Functional Manager and not of project Manager in Matrix Structure
Project Expediter
- The Project Expediter monitors and reports on the status of the project to senior management. This role has no authority.
- The Project Expediter acts as a communication coordinator only and cannot enforce any decisions.
Project Coordinator
- the Project Coordinator role is similar to expediter, but has some limited, referential authority.
- The project coordinator may report to someone higher on the management food chain than the expediter.
- The Project Coordinator has some authority to make decisions.
#A project coordinator or Project Coordinator may typically be found in FUNCTIONAL type of an organization or in WEAK MATRIX
#An organization structure that involves various organizational types at various levels is called a Composite structure
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