Project Manager: Functional Management And Project Management

Register to read the introduction… The project manager manages the project and ensures that the project objectives are being met while and the functional manager manages the people, ensuring that the right set of resources are available are supported. The functional manager is responsible for the technical objectives, such as bringing in the required technical expertise that is needed to complete the project. Functional managers generally have a direct reporting relationship to the project team while the project manager does not, and hence must use a variety of management and facilitation skills to manage the team.

Part 2 – Given that making different types of furniture requires very specialized technical and functional knowledge, and there are activities that are performed repeatedly, and there is not so much a need for interacting with other functions of the organization on a very regular basis with controlling the cost being a key project objective, the functional …show more content…
Given that the impact of this risk is very high, and it has a high probability of occurrence as the project needs specialized infrastructure, this is a key risk that must be managed. The response for this risk is that infrastructure set up activities would be delegated (risk transfer) to the company IT team with they being informed in advance and having a deadline of getting this completed 5 days before project start. The project manager would be the person responsible for tracking and ensuring that this work gets completed, which would allow the development to start as per