provisional, or long-lasting organizational unit that provides a range of services to provide support to project teams that are accountable for a defined group of projects (Wysocki, 2011). There are three kinds of PSOs. For starters, there is the directive PSO where project managers are administratively linked to the PSO and are allocated to projects from the PSO. In general, this structure is earmarked for enterprise-wide projects. Second, there is controlling PSO and in this kind, the components, templates, and procedures are all provided by the PSO and all project managers, irrespective of their resident department are expected to utilize them. Lastly, there is the… Continue Reading...
projects once implementation kicks off. It may sometimes be impossible to ignore changes in the project environment (Chin, 2004). For instance, changes in regulation may warrant the redesigning of a road or building.
Another challenge of the agile methodology stems from the increasingly dispersed nature of project teams (Highsmith, 2010). Today, owing to globalization and increased international business, it is common for members of a… Continue Reading...
project teams. International Journal Of Information
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models. Secondly, the different types of work teams in an organization include production-oriented work teams, project teams, management teams, and quality improvement/problem-solving teams. These researchers found that the effectiveness of work teams in enhancing organizational performance requires members to develop relationships based on respect, optimal performance, and embracing diversity. The organization's management should establish suitable processes for handling conflicts and dysfunction brought by diversity in the work teams.
Delarue et al. (2008) conducted a research to examine the contributions of teamwork to organizational performance based on review of survey data. The study focused on examining results from empirical studies that evaluated teamwork and organizational performance… Continue Reading...
Case Study: Franklin Equipment, Ltd.
Q1. Evaluate the criteria FEL uses to assign managers to project teams. What efficiencies do these criteria create? What are the resulting problems?
FEL assigns managers to project teams based on the manager’s areas of expertise and availability. Expertise is essential given that the type of work is highly differentiated on each project team and requires very specific skills. Many of these skills are so-called “hard” rather than “soft” people skills and require years of experience, advanced degrees, and certification; they are not something that can be learned on the job (such as engineering). A manager must have a proven… Continue Reading...
