What is Functional Organizational Structure?

• Team members perform departmental and project work.

• Team members are trained according to their domain.

Disadvantages of Functional Organization Structure

• Team members doesn’t report to project manager.

• Team members learning is limited to their domain.

• The relationship between departments are very complex.

• The project manager has limited or no authority.

• Most of the time information remains within the specific department.

• Legacy structure.

• Low flexibility in process,procedure and policies for challenging projects.

• No growth in project management domain.

• Cross functional decision making take more time.