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Course concept
The course starts with core concepts of project organization. **PMBOK®** and **Kerzner** ´s book on project management are the main sources for the fundamentals. Regarding Kerzner we have to focus on the chapters on **Organizational Structures, Organizing and Staffing the Project Office and Team**, and **the Project Office**. Regarding **PMBOK®** we have to focus on the chapter on **Project Life Cycle and Organization.**

Students are requested to study these chapters before they go to classes. In the classes we will discuss the concepts and the way to install and manage project organization in various kinds of projects.

In classes we will focus on project organization from the perspective of roles and responsibilities - stakeholder analysis is a core issue.


 * The Core Concept of Stakeholders **

All persons involved in projects are called stakeholders. The project sponsor, the project manager, but also all those who have to deal with the outcomes of a project are stakeholders.

All students are requested to search for projects in their organizations and to identify the stakeholders - **all students should prepare a list of stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities** in the project. In our classes we want to go deeper into stakeholder analysis by using Object Roles Models. This approach is not only important to get a better understanding or organizations but also to develop organization. Organizational development reshapes roles and responsibilities - and the better we understand roles and responsibilities the better we can manage changes.

All students should have a first look at a paper on object role modeling before they go to classes : [|ORM White Paper].

Several tools are available to support object role modeling - Microsoft Visio is the most popular one. We will show how to use such tools.

After the classes at the end of February a short stakeholder analysis based upon object role models should be developed.

Some links

[|stakeholder]

[|project manager]

[|organization concepts]

[|project organization structures]

[|project organization selection]

project sponsor

project board

[|project manager]

[|project technology manager]

[|business center manager]

[|project people management]

[|project management job description]

[|project management office]

[|launching a project office]

[|justifying a project office]

[|program office : pros and cons]

[|program office -part a]

[|program office - part b]

A project needs its own organization and the organization of a project must be linked to other organizations - to organizations sponsoring the project, to organizations using the outcomes of a project, to organizations that take the core responsibility of a project, and often many others.

Somethings projects are mostly embedded in another organization. A project for example dealing with the implementation of a new information system may be embedded in a company - most people working in the project may be employees of that company - probably supported by some external consultants.