Project Management, 2nd Edition

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Project Systems Organization

Environmental Factors in Project Organization

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

If the benefits of systems structure are to be realized, a comprehensive change is needed across the project environment in terms of recognizing and responding to all the requirements of personnel interfaces, technology, resource allocation, and work process. First, change must occur in the physical and information ...