Assignment Task:
Consider a medium-sized company that has decided to begin using project management in a wide variety of its operations. As part of their operational shift, they are going to adopt a project management office (PMO) somewhere within their organization. Make an argument for the type of PMO they should be adopting (weather station, control tower, or resource pool). What are some of the key decision criteria that will help them determine which model makes the most sense?
Suggestion- Use Microsoft Powerpoint for your drawings. (use a computer software package to draw the charts - Don't hand draw)
I. You are a member of the senior management staff at XYZ Corporation. You have historically been using a functional structure set up with five departments: finance, human resources, marketing, production, and engineering.
a. Drawing of your simplified functional structure, identifying the five departments.
b. Assume you have decided to move to a project structure. What might be some of the environmental pressures that would contribute to your belief that it is necessary to alter the structure?
c. With the project structure, you have four projects currently ongoing: stereo equipment, instrumentation, and testing equipment, optical scanners, and defense communications. Draw the new structure that creates these four projects as part of the organizational chart.
II. Suppose you now wanted to convert the structure from that in Question 6 to a matrix structure, emphasizing dual commitments to function and project.
a. Re-create the structural design to show how the matrix would look.
b. What behavioral problems could you begin to anticipate through this design? That is, do you see any potential points of friction in the dual hierarchy setup?