B A 360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Project Manager, High Visibility, Program Evaluation
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Planning - includes goal setting, defining the project, and team organization. Scheduling - relates people, money, and supplies to specific activities and relates activities to each other. Controlling - firm monitors resources, costs, quality, and budgets. Revises or changes plans and shift resources to meet time and cost demands. Projects - series of related tasks directed toward a major output. Project organization - developed to make sure existing programs continue to run smoothly on a day-to-day basis while new projects are successfully completed. Effective way of assigning the people and physical resources needed. Temporary organization structure designed to achieve results by using specialists from throughout the firm. Work tasks can be defined with a specific goal and deadline. Job is unique or somewhat unfamiliar to the existing organization. Work contains complex interrelated tasks requiring specialized skills. Project is temporary but critical to the organization. Project team members are temporarily assigned to project and report to the project manger.
