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Project Management Orientation

What Is a Team?

A team is a group of individuals working toward a common goal.  Your team will include people from your organization, suppliers, clients, and the project sponsor, each of whom bring their own skills to the team. 
As the project manager, you must ensure that the team members recognize the skills of the other team members and the ways in which team members depend on each other.

When a group of individuals truly becomes a team, they are committed to the team's values and objectives.  They learn to work well together, they enjoy working together, and most importantly they produce the high-quality results that are key to a successful project.

 

Organization Types

The type of organization you work in affects the project manager’s ability to deliver a project successfully.  The project manager must understand the challenges involved in managing a project within various organizational structures and must anticipate that over the life of a project the organizational structure might change.  There are three types of organizational structures:  functional, projectized, and matrix.  These are described on the following page.

1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
Fast Points
Concepts
Seven Keys
Case Study
WWPMM
Mentor
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