Divided: where a department works on their part of the project assignment and would later handover to the next relevant department to complete the workload accordingly.
‘ Cross Functional: where members of different departments work at the same point of time on different parts of the project assignment.
Advantages Disadvantages
the use of personnel with greater flexibility, as long as the choice of a suitable functional departments as the project supervisor, the department will be able to provide professional and technical personnel required by the project, and technology experts can also be used by different projects and after completion of the work can go back to his original work. projects often lack of focus, each unit has its own core functions of general business, sometimes in order to meet their basic needs, and responsibility for the project will be ignored, especially when the interest taken in the project brought to the unit not the same interest.
when the project team members leave, the functions can be used as the basis for maintaining the continuity of the project. such organization has certain difficulties in the inter-departmental cooperation and exchanges.
functional department can provide a normal career path for professionals. the motivation is not strong enough for project participants, they think the project is an additional burden, and not directly related to their career development and upgrading.
sometimes, none should assume full responsibility for the project, often the project manager is only responsible for part of the project, others are responsible for the other parts of the projec