Until the 1970’s, normal, big organizations had tendency to operate in “silos”, rational divisions where basically separated groups of workers would report to a line manager or functional manager. Matrix systems emerged as an effort to restructure these inefficient organizational structures to support more efficient project-based management.
Functional Organizational Structure
Big organizations used to operate in “silos”, [...]

A project manager, quite simply defined, is an individual who is responsible for the entire project. He or she is not responsible for completing every task. Indeed, it is unlikely that the manager would even have every skill needed to complete all the work. He or she is simply the final decision maker. This person [...]

Danielle Baker had an interesting post over on PMHut about Project Management vs. ITIL release management.
It seems that quite a few people are confused by the distinction. In fact, I’ve even noticed that senior IT folks don’t understand the difference between implementing a PMO, an SDLC, or implementing ITIL. I guess most C-Level’s just want [...]