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It’s a large organization with more than 700,000 members from countries around the

globe.

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In addition to publishing the PMBOK Guide , PMI also manages two rigorous
certification exams for individual project managers: the Certified Associate in Project
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Management (CAPM) and the Project Management Professional (PMP) . The
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PMBOK Guide is the basis for the exam portion of the CAPM and PMP certifications.
If you continue in a career in project management, you may decide to study and sit for
the CAPM or PMP certification exams. The material you will study to prepare for the
Project+ exam is an excellent foundation on which to build your project management
knowledge.

Understanding Organizational Structures

The structure of your organization has an impact on many aspects of project
management, including the authority of the project manager and the process to assign
resources.

Project managers are often frustrated by what appear to be roadblocks in moving the
project forward, but in many cases, the root issue is the organizational structure itself
and how it operates. The following sections will cover the different types of
organizational structures and how they influence the way projects are conducted.

The Functional Organization

The classic organizational structure is the functional organization, as shown in Figure
1.1. In this structure, the staff is organized along departmental lines, such as IT,
marketing, sales, network, human resources, public relations, customer support, and
legal. Each department is managed independently with a limited span of control. This
organizational type is hierarchical, with each staff member reporting to one supervisor,

who in turn reports to one supervisor, and so on up the chain. Figure 1.1 shows a
typical functional organization.

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