PMBOK Overview: Environments and PM Role

Question 1

3 features of environments in which projects operate:
1. EEF - rules and policies you must follow
2. OPA
things that you get to use, like historical information, forms, software
3. Organisational …
the structure at how work gets done

Answer 1

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Organisational process assets
3. systems

Question 2

EEFs and OPAs influence the project management …

Answer 2

approach

Question 3

EEFs originate from … and often outside of the …

Answer 3

outside of the project (ex. a policy in the company on how to procure)
enterprise (ex. a law I need to adhere to)

Question 4

Organizational systems play a significant role in the … of the project

Answer 4

life cycle

Question 5

OPAs are created for projects and … …

Answer 5

by experience

Question 6

EEFs:

1) … to the organisation
2) … to the organisation

Answer 6

Enterprise environmental factors:

1) Internal
2) External (laws, contracts with unions)

Question 7

OPAs are also processes and policies (like EEFs), but I am not required to follow them, this is more about …

Answer 7

how things get done

Question 8

OPAs:

1) processes, policies and procedures
2) organisational … …

Answer 8

knowledge repositories

Historical information, databases, reports

Question 9

Organizational systems
It is about how different lines of business are arranged:
1) … frameworks (how things get done)
2) … elements (hierarchy)
3) organizational …
how project team members get on my project or who is in charge of the project budget - is it PM or …

Answer 9

1) governance
2) management
3) structures
functional manager

Question 10

PM can be involved … and … the project

Answer 10

before and after the project

ex. working with a project analyst to write a project charter / support as SME

Question 11

4 key activities of PM:
1) ... the ... to achieve objectives
2) balance the ... ...
time, ..., ..., quality and ...
3) communicate with ...
4) contribute to ... ...

Answer 11

1) lead the team
2) competing objectives
time, cost, scope, quality and risk
3) stakeholders
4) business value
how is the project valuable? tangible or intangible assets?