Mastering Project Management Strategy and Processes: Proven Methods to Meet Organizational Goals

3. Organizing the Management of Projects

3.1 Introduction

One thing that organizations have learned over the years is that a large component of success is based on the efficiency of using resources to complete the organization’s strategic objectives. This is first accomplished in breaking down the organization into components of operations in which common activities can be categorized into departments to better manage and organize resources to accomplish the department’s specific goals. The second element is to hire skilled and experienced managers to oversee each department to ensure that resources are being managed to conduct work activities that will accomplish the department’s expected deliverables. The managers identify specific work activities ...