According to the Project Management Institute, the PMP is a credential examination process that is used to determine whether someone has the salience, criticality, and frequency of specialized knowledge, skills, and organization to become a project manager.
Probably the most difficult decision facing upper-level management is the selection of project managers. Some managers work best on long-duration projects where decisionmaking can be slow.
To understand the problems that occur during staffing, we must first investigate the characteristics of project management, including the project environment, the project management process, and the project manager.
Successful project management, regardless of the organizational structure, is only as good as the individuals and leaders who are managing the key functions.
By 1970, Jones and Shephard Accountants, Inc. (J&S) was ranked eighteenth in size by the American Association of Accountants. In order to compete with the larger firms, J&S formed an Information Services Division designed primarily for studies and analyses.
Why have some companies been able to implement this change in a short period of time while other companies require years? The answer is that successful implementation requires good transitional management.
During the past ten years, large companies have restructured into strategic business units (SBUs). An SBU is a grouping of functional units that have the responsibility for profit (or loss) of part of the organization’s core businesses
Small and medium companies generally prefer to have the project manager report fairly high up in the chain of command, even though the project manager may be working on a relatively low-priority project.
Project management has matured as an outgrowth of the need to develop and produce complex and/or large projects in the shortest possible time, within anticipated cost, with required reliability and performance, and (when applicable) to realize a profit.
Matrix layering can be defined as the creation of one matrix within a second matrix. For example, a company can have a total company matrix, and each division or department (i.e., project engineering) can have its own internalized matrix. In the situation of a matrix within a matrix, all matrices are formal operations.
In project-driven companies, the creation of a project management division is readily accepted as a necessity to conduct business.