Organizational culture and Styles:

Organizational culture and styles may have strong influence on project performance. An organizations degree of project maturity and its project management systems can also influence the project.

Organizational Structure:

It is an enterprise environmental factor which can affect the availability of resources and influence how projects are conducted.

Ø  Functional Organization:

In functional organization each employee has one superior. Staff members are distinguished by their departments such as marketing, engineering and finance. Each department in a functional organization will do its project work independent of other departments.

Ø  Matrix Organization:

o    Weak Matrix Organization:

In Weak Matrix Organization there are many characteristics of functional organization. Project manager work as a coordinator or expediter.

o    Balanced Matrix Organization:

In balanced matrix organization project manager does not have the full authority over the project and project team.

o    Strong Matrix Organization:

Strong matrix organization have many characteristics of the Projectized organization and have full-timed project manager with authority and project administrative staff.

Ø  Projectized Organization:

In a Projectized organization team members are co-located and most of the organization resources are involved in a project work, project managers have a great deal of independence and authority.

Ø  Composite Organization:

In composite organization full-time staffs from different functional departments develop its own set of procedures, and work outside the standard and formalized reporting structure.

Organization Process Assets:

Organizational process assets include any or all process related assets, from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that can be used to influence the project’s success.

Two categories of organizational process assets are.

Ø  Process and Procedures:

o    Organizational standard processes

o    Standard guidelines, work instruction and proposal evaluation criteria

o    Templates

o    Organization communication requirements

o    Project closure guidelines or requirements

Ø  Corporate Knowledge Base:

o    Process management databases

o    Project files

o    Historical information and lesson learned knowledge

o    Issues and defect management database

o    Configuration management knowledge base

o    Financial databases like labor hours, incurred costs, budgets and any project costs overruns