The Handbook of Project Management, 6th Edition

Chapter 9 Project organization

Rodney Turner and Martina Huemann

DOI: 10.4324/9781003274179-11

Introduction

The purpose of designing a project organization is to set those elements of governance associated with defining the roles, responsibilities, relationships, and rights of (internal) project stakeholders. We define the roles and responsibilities, so people know who is responsible for delivering which elements of the project’s results. In defining roles and responsibilities we also define lines of authority and communication, so people know to whom they are responding, where they will receive information from, and where they need to send it to. Communication is related to relationships, so people know with whom they are interacting and ...