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Typical organizational charts don’t capture the complex relationships between people working on project teams. A project org chart establishes expectations of leadership, teamwork and accountability that is stronger than hierarchal staffing diagrams.
This is the third in a series of excerpts from the author’s new book Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces (© Kimberly Wiefling 2007).
Mediocre organizations are often plagued by the rampant abdication of responsibility by the very people who are supposed to be leading them. At every layer of management, these evasive characters somehow avoid committing to anything outside of their minuscule comfort zones. They fog their agreements with weasel-words that foreshadow their impending failure to deliver as promised. Adding to the confusion, the roles of team members are not clearly defined on many projects. Like a body without a head, the team lurches fitfully toward some hazy destination, unsure of who’s doing what.
Most typical org charts don’t capture the complex relationships between people working on project teams.
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