Problem:
Lets sat that you work as a project manager for the IT department at your company, a supplier of customized management software packages for the oil industry. Your company is in the process of a big expansion, and the IT department will assume project management responsibility for supporting this growth. While your company does IT projects for its customers, the IT department focuses on your company's infrastructure.
In many of the my questions that follow, you will need to use your imagination to create company-specific technology and business detail to translate and detail the realism
Let say as your company ramps up its project management infrastructure, and you are asked to draw up a memo to upper management.
Can you Show how project management fits into the big picture in terms of the product life cycle, system life cycle, portfolio management, and program management?
Explain how projects relate to each of these organizational contexts.