Knowledge Area Process Mind Map

Based on PMBOK 5th Edition

Organizational Influencers

and Project Manager

PMP Club Meeting in PMSTME

on 28 June -2015

What are Organizational Influencers?? Organizational Culture & Style

Organizational Communications

Organizational Structure

Organizational Process Assets

Enterprise Environmental Factors

Project Stakeholders

Organizational Culture and Style Risk Tolerance levels

Reliance Group – Jamnagar Refinery

Tata Group – Konkan Railway

Bank of Maharashtra

Values-Melstar- Medical Transcription Project

Motivation

Empowerment – Reliance and Bajaj

Attendance – Tata/ Reliance/ Bajaj/Melstar

Hierarchy and authority relationships

Internal dynamics

Code of conduct and ethics

Bank of Maharashtra

Operating environments

Reliance

IIS Infotech

Organizational Communications

Communication style Verbal instructions – IIS Infotech

Grapevine – Melstar/Reliance

Communication channels Persons in confidence

Communications bottlenecks I read mails only addressed to me

Ineffective way of using emails – Essar

I will directly communicate with person of my level or above – Bank of Maharashtra

Organizational Structure

Types Functional

Projectized

Matrix

Authority of Project Manager

So on….

Enterprise Structure Power dynamics – Reliance and

Bank of Maharashtra

Group Interests

Issues of group level consolidation

Loss of power

Cost of not participations

MIS is incomplete

Waste of energy

Budgets

People don’t want to share the costs

O r g a n i z a t i o n a l P r o c e s s A s s e t s

PMO Updating the knowledge base

Maturity level

QMS Tata

Melstar

Knowledge management Systems

Policies Attendance – Reliance/Melstar/Tata

Internal Audits

E n t e r p r i s e E n v i r o n m e n t a l F a c t o r s Geographical distribution of

resources

Standards ISO

CMM

QMS _ Melstar

Stakeholders’ risk tolerances Reliance

Tata

Political climate

Commercial data bases Estimates-Reliance

Project Managemen

t

Govt.

Stakeholders

Cpolitics & Power

Standards

S t a k e h o l d e r s

Top management

Customer ISO

CMM

Melstar-UK/Singapore Project

Stakeholders’ risk tolerances Reliance

Tata

Political climate - common

Commercial data bases Estimates-Reliance

So….

There is project impact on the environment

Also, environment impacts the project

Project scope also includes Managing Environment for the

betterment of project

Living with the environment and driving the project to meet the objectives

References

PMBOK 5th edition