The Definitive Guide to Project Management: The fast track to getting the job done on time and on budget, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Project organization, people and management

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• Structure of this chapter

• First thoughts

• Main kinds of organization and consequences for project management

• Project management system

• Project organization and project roles

• Managing the project team

• Project lifecycle

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Aims of this chapter

By the end of this chapter, the reader should:

• understand that people are paramount in project management;

• understand that the soft factors of organizational culture and personal character and style are more important to success in project management than the hard factors such as analysis and planning techniques;

• categorize their own organization into the spectrum of generic organizational structures, and state the main consequences ...