Exam 15: Project Organizational Structure and Integration

In an organization that is constantly involved in projects that require the full time efforts of several functional departments, which form of project is probably the best:

The project office (circle all that apply):

Properties inherent to all project organizations include (circle all that apply):

Statement: There is really no such thing as an organization that is ideal for all situations and kinds of work.

Statement: In projects that involve several contractors and subcontractors, the task of integration may be assigned to one of the contractors.

Statement: The extent to which organizational subunits interact, coordinate, and mutually adjust their actions to reach organizational goals is called "integration."

Statement: A cross-functional team includes people primarily from one area of specialization or business function.

Statement: Concurrent engineering teams work on only engineering matters.

Statement: In organizations that use the pure project form of structure there tends to be duplication of effort.

A good concurrent engineering team (circle all that apply):

Integration in projects involves (circle all that apply):

Statement: Integrated systems development helps minimize the number of change requests.

Which of the following are true about the traditional form of organization (circle all that apply):

Statement: Concurrent engineering means that all phases of a project happen at the same time.

In a project that is very large, complex, involves considerable risk, and is long-duration, which form of project is probably the best:

A heavyweight development team (circle all that apply):

A concurrent engineering team might include members from (circle all that apply):

Statement: When a project is too small to set up a full time project group, a task force may be set up to handle it.

Statement: In a matrix organization the project manager must get technical and human resources from the functional managers.

Statement: A project expeditor typically has more authority than, say, the project manager of a pure project organization.