My experience while working in industry centers around my time at Bristol-Myers Squibb where the entire department worked in primarily a project based environment. There was a common goal for the entire method and analytical development (MAD) department worked towards and each employee answered to their respective project leaders. These project leaders were responsible for the organization, effectiveness, and work output of each of their staff. The project leaders also reported to one project manager who was in charge of the entire departments direction of focus. The overall result of this organizational structure was that there were numerous teams operating at once, yet there was not much inter-team communication among them. This worked well for BMS because each team was focused on completing its individual part of the project while not having to worry about all the other components that went into the final product. As a result, a degree of specialization was achieved optimizing the overall output of the individual projects. This project based organization ultimately worked well for my department as we were able to get the desired results ahead of schedule and under the allotted budget put aside for the task.

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