IT Project Management, 2nd Edition

3.1. Defining the Organizational Structure

The way your organization is structured determines the communication requirements, responsibilities, and reporting structure you have with management. Because all organizations and projects are different from one another (thankfully), they can be broken down into one of three different organizational structure models: functional, matrix, and projectized.

3.1.1. Working in a Functional Organization

Functional organizations are fairly common. These types of organizations are segmented by departments and their "functions." For example, you may have "Sales," "Accounting," "Legal," "IT," and so on throughout your organization. In a true functional environment, all team members, including the project manager, ...