PMP Certification Exam Prep Course 35 PDU Contact Hours/PDU

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• In fact, in a functional business, you're nothing more than a resource yourself to a functional manager.

• There are three main structures that a company can follow.

• Well, the different structure in the business helps to determine the power of the project manager in the business.

• For example, in a functional company, the project manager has very little power versus in a project oriented business or a project size business where the project manager gains all the power.

• So right off the bat, you understand that the structure of the business determines how much power over those resources that you're going to have in the business.

• functional organization.

• This is a structure that groups staff members according to their areas, areas of expertise, sales, marketing, construction, functional structures require the team members to report directly to the functional manager.

• If I jump the gun now and I go to a Project Ties organization, this is a structure where the PM has the greatest amount of authority. The team is assigned to the project on a full time basis. When the project is completed, the project team member moves on to other assignments within the business, sometimes even release.

• Now we do have this middle ground where we have a weak balance and a strong matrix.