Understanding organizational structures

Much of your day-to-day life running projects will be significantly impacted by your organizational processes and the culture of your organization. This could be based on your industry, what regulatory compliance is necessary, or simply because of how your organization chooses to run things.

The most significant impact on how these processes evolve is based mostly on how your organization is structured. Some structures are better than others for projects, and sometimes, trying to implement new best practices can be a bit painful due to your organizational influences.

In perfect-world project management, it may be necessary to restructure the organizational dynamics to accommodate projects. Some organizations began as a siloed functional organization and expanded and grew into something more effective in the project management space. This takes time and effort, though.

In my experience, when organizations attempt to massively change their...