Efficiency in managing projects comes with good project organization skills. When you are able to identify the components in a project and the project goals are clear to you, then you can lead your team’s activities efficiently and achieve the desired goals.
20% of projects are said to run into a dead-end because of various factors – a blown-out budget, failure to meet objectives and deadlines, or missed goals. However, you can minimize such risks in your project management with the right project organization skills. You would want your project to exceed expectations, right? To achieve this, a laser focus on the components of your project and organizing them into meaningful alignment are essential.
What constitutes project organization?
According to George R. Terry, “A project organization is a preferred means whenever a well-defined project must be dealt with or when the task is bigger than anything which the organization is accustomed to.” This definition implies that it is especially imperative for you to identify and know the components of your project, particularly if it is of an unprecedented scale.
Generally, project organization involves bringing all the different project components and creating a project functional structure. The “functional structure” is the backbone of project organization, says an article on Your Article Library. Leaders, coordinators, and project managers collaborate to drive the project’s functional structure, while cross-departmental workers and specialists with various levels of skills work together to complete the project within the drawn functional structure.
Thus, you must familiarize yourself with all the tools, concepts, and methods that are part of the project’s function and execution. Being well-versed in the language of project management is also a game-changer that increases your project’s viability. After that, you can use all your acquired expertise and tools as a synergy to break down your project into accommodating pieces. Then, you piece your project back together by scheduling, tracking, and controlling the broken-down project components.
Get to know how you can enhance your project management aptitude via project organization by taking the Project Management certificate program offered by Genashtim in collaboration with eCornell.
eCornell courses are approved by SkillsFuture Singapore for SkillsFuture Credit as well as by HRD Corp Malaysia under its SBL-Khas Scheme.