A Survival Guide for Project Managers, Second Edition

Chapter 10. Project Management in Different Organizational Environments

	Management means getting things done through the active support of other people.
	--HAROLD KERZNER professor of Systems Management, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio

Virtually every book on project management includes a section on organizational structures, and they all discuss the three most common structures: functional or traditional, project management, and matrix. To be sure, these are the three basic organizational structures on which all other structures are modeled. In my experience, though, there are two additional organizational concepts that deserve attention.

The fact is that few organizations are organized in one of the ideal forms. They are a mixture of two ...