Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: A System For Value Delivery 5506 10730
This lesson provides an in-depth understanding of the internal machinery an organization brings to its projects — the two categories of organizational process assets (OPAs) in detail, and the organizational structures within which projects are staffed and led.
The lesson highlights the specific policies, processes, and procedures that govern project work, the knowledge repositories that store and supply reusable project information, and the range of organizational structure types that determine a project manager's authority, role, and access to resources. It emphasizes why an experienced practitioner must read the structural context accurately: the same project run under a functional structure versus a project-oriented one gives the project manager radically different authority and resource availability, and misjudging that context is a frequent cause of frustration and underperformance.
This lesson completes the treatment of the project environment begun in Lesson 3.