PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM PROJECT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION

The ADDC Project Management Team helps in the organization and coordination of ADDC  strategies between our project management, program management, and portfolio management for all ADDC projects.  The structure of our organizational project management is used in aligning the practices of project management with the organization’s structure. ADDC uses the Matrix-based project organization structure. This allows program units to focus on their specific technical competencies and allow projects to be staffed with specialists from throughout the organization. In ADDC, it is common for our architects and engineers to report to one person in the programmatic unit, while working for one or two project managers from other projects in different programmatic units. The main advantage of the matrix-based organization is the efficient allocation of all resources, especially scarce specialty skills that cannot be fully utilized by only one project. For instance, monitoring and evaluation specialists may not be utilized full-time on a project but can be fully leveraged by working on multiple projects. ADDC is a global organization with specialists located in different countries with different time zones.  As such, the matrix-based organization structure serves as the most flexible structure when dealing with changing programmatic needs and priorities. Other advantages to matrix management structure are that it allows team members to share information more readily across the unit boundaries, allows for specialization that can increase the depth of knowledge, and allow professional development and career progression to be managed. It is easier for a program unit manager to loan an employee to another manager without making the change permanent. It is therefore easier to accomplish work objectives in an environment where task loads are shifting rapidly between programmatic units. The Project Management Team serves the coordinating role of supervising and providing support to the project managers and serves as the Project Management Office (PMO), dedicated to providing expertise, best practices, training, methodologies, and guidance to project managers. In this capacity, the above project organization provides the arrangement for decisions on how to realize a project. It decides the project’s process, including planning how its costs, deadlines, personnel, and tools will be implemented. The project organization is then presented to the project stakeholders. There are three areas of competence and responsibility in the above project organizational structure: project leadership, the project team, and the project board. The project leadership is responsible for the management of the project, and the project team implements the project, while the project board is the decision-making body that defines project success and whether or not a project must be canceled.