Exam 13: Project Management Organizational Structures

As projects wind down and are completed in ____, the company hopes to get contracts for new projects.

This organization structure can be cost-inefficient because of underutilization of resources.

A disadvantage of an autonomous project organizational structure is that project team members do not have a functional "home."

____ provides for effective utilization of company resources.

The _________________ is typically used in businesses that primarily sell and produce standard products.

In ____, the objective is to maximize the number of functional person-hours applied to work on projects and minimize the unapplied time.

In ____, project team members can inform the project manager and the functional manager.

In ____, each member of a project team has a dual reporting relationship; in a sense, each member has two managers, a (temporary)project manager and a (permanent)functional manager.

In ____, the project organization is highly responsive to the customer.

In ____, the company always needs to have new projects coming in as other projects are completed, in order to maintain a high applied-time rate for the functional staff.

In ____, employees work on multiple projects at any given time.

Advantages of the ______________ are that the project team has full control over the resources, including authority over how the work gets done and by whom.

In ____, people experience greater learning and growth, and their knowledge and skills are transferred from project to project.

People in the _______________ experience greater learning and growth, and their knowledge and skills are transferred from project to project and the structure facilitates information flow.

In a ___________, the project manager does not have complete authority over the project team, because administratively the members still work for their respective functional managers.

Teamwork with other functions is not emphasized, and there is little cross-fertilization of ideas in the ____ organizational structure.

The most common types of organizational structures are:

In ____, there is little opportunity for members of different project teams to share knowledge or technical expertise, because each project team tends to be isolated.

____ allows efficient utilization of resources by having individuals from various functions assigned to work on specific projects.

The ____ organization provides opportunities for people in the functional components to pursue career development through assignment to various types of projects.