When I worked at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I feel it was more of a functional organization. The functional heads have a lot of power. I had a great rapport with my functional manager so I didn’t mind it but I could see where problems could occur. The functional manager typically wasn’t a technical expert or knew what was going on in individual projects. When you have a problem you have to go to him and explain everything from the ground up and pretty much tell him what you need him to do to push the project forward. I would have preferred to work in a project based organization because as a project manager, I could fight for my team and plan things instead of having someone who isn’t really familiar with the project do it.