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Refer to conditions, not under the control of the project team, that influence
constrain, or direct the project. These conditions can be internal and/or external to the organization
Enterprise environmental factors (EEFs)
T/F Organizational culture, structure, and governance are internal EEFs
True
T/F Geographic distribution of facilities and resources is not an internal EFF
False
T/F Resource availability is an internal EFF
True
T/F Employee capability is not an internal EFF
False
T/F Marketplace conditions is an external EFF
True
T/F Commercial databases and Academic research are external EFFs
True
T/F Government or industry standards Financial considerations and/or Physical environmental elements aren´t external EFFs
False
They´re the plans, processes, policies, procedures, and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Organizational process assets (OPAs)
include any artifact, practice, or knowledge from any or all of the performing organizations involved in the
project that can be used to execute or govern the project.
Organizational process assets (OPAs)
include the organization’s lessons learned from
previous projects and historical information.
Organizational process assets (OPAs)
*(Corporate knowledge base is okay too)
OPAs may be grouped into two categories:
Processes, policies, and procedures; and Organizational knowledge bases.
PROCESSES, POLICIES, AND PROCEDURES examples when initiating and planning: (at least have the idea of 2)
- Guidelines and criteria for tailoring
- Specific organizational standards such as policies
- Product and project life cycles, and methods and procedures
- Templates
- Preapproved supplier lists and various types of contractual agreements
PROCESSES, POLICIES, AND PROCEDURES examples when executing, monitoring and controlling: (at least have the idea of 2)
- Change control procedures
- Traceability matrices
- Financial controls procedures
- Issue and defect management procedures
- Resource availability control and assignment management
- Templates
- Product, service, or result verification and validation procedures
PROCESSES, POLICIES, AND PROCEDURES examples when closing: (at least have the idea of 2)
- Project closure guidelines
- Project closure requirements
- project audits, project evaluations
- deliverable acceptance, contract closure
- resource reassignment, and knowledge transfer to production and/or operations
Mention some examples of ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES:
o Historical information and lessons learned knowledge repositories.
o Financial data repositories.
o Issue and defect management data repositories.
o Data repositories for metrics used to collect and make available measurement data on processes and products.
o Project files from previous projects
Determines the power, influence, interests, competence, and political capabilities of the people who are able to act within the system
Organizational system
The organizational system factors include but are not limited to:
o Management elements,
o Governance frameworks, and
o Organizational structure types
There are several principles regarding systems:
o Systems are dynamic,
o Systems can be optimized,
o System components can be optimized,
o Systems and their components cannot be optimized at the same time, and
o Systems are nonlinear in responsiveness (a change in the input does not produce a predictable change in the output).
Refers to organizational or structural arrangements at all levels of
an organization designed to determine and influence the behavior of the organization’s members
Governance
is the framework within which authority is exercised in organizations.
Governance
Governance framework includes but is not limited to:
- Rules,
- Policies,
- Procedures,
- Norms,
- Relationships,
- Systems, and
- Processes.
Refers to the framework, functions, and processes that guide project management activities in order to create a unique product, service, or result to meet organizational, strategic, and operational goals.
Project governance
Are the components that comprise the key functions or principles of general management in the organization.
Management Elements