Project Management Features and Requirements
The project management organization integrates widely diverse disciplines.
Indeed, the sheer scope and inherent complexities of today's projects
dictate the need for a formally structured project management system.
It is necessary for the balancing of such interactive factors as
economics, environment, design, construction, and human resources,
as well as for synchronizing activities in terms of time, cost,
and space. Figure 2 shows the project management
concept introduced into a traditional organization
Figure 2. Project Management introduced into a
Traditional Organization
From Figure 2 it will be noted that certain features set it apart
from the traditional function--oriented management philosophy outlined
earlier. For example:
- A central clearing house is established for timely project decisions
involving diverse interests
- It is directly involved in managing participation by parties
normally outside its direct control. It pulls together such diverse
activities as feasibility studies, client changes, regulatory
requirements, design, construction, startup, etc., all of
which are time-phased over the life of the project, and which
require coordinated planning, scheduling, and control
- Natural organizational conflicts are brought into the open
where they can be dealt with
- Project requirements of scope, budget and schedule are clearly
established
- The life of the individual project organization is finite in
duration. Personnel directly involved are introduced to one project,
and later assigned to other projects as time progresses
- The project team is a professional unit and needs to be managed
by motivation, persuasion, and human relations, rather than a
simple superior-subordinate relationship
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