Project Environment Flashcards
What are the types of factors used in the PMBOK?
1) EEF - Enterprise Environmental Factors
2) OPA - Organizational Process Assets
What is defined as conditions outside the control of the project team that impact the project?
EEFs - Enterprise Environmental Factors
What type of factors does a project team or company have controler over becuase the factors are organizational specific factors?
OPAs - Organizational Process Assets
What are internal EEFs?
- Organizational culture and structure
- Geographic distribution
- Facilities and resources - Infrastructure
- IT software
- Resource availability
What are external EEFs?
- Market conditions
- Legal restrictions
- Commercial databases
- Physical environmental elements
- Financial considerations
- Exchange rates, interest rates, tariffs
What are defined as the plans, processes, and knowledge bases internal to the organization?
OPA - Organizational Process Assets
What are the two forms of OPA?
1) Processes, policies, and procedures
2) Corporate knowledge base
What type of OPAs are the following:
- Guidelines
- Standards
- Templates
- Procedures
- Change Contro
Processes, policies, and procedures
What type of OPAs are teh following:
- Project files from past projects
- Data repositories
- Lessons learned
- Issue and defect management
- Financial data
Corporate knowledge base
What are the six must know organizational structure types?
- Functional (centralized)
- Matrix - Weak
- Matrix - Balanced
- Matrix - Strong
- Project-oriented
- Hybrid
What are established to provide support and guidance to projects.
PMO - Project Management Office
What are the three types of PMO? (Project Management Office)
- Supportive
- Controlling
- Directive
What type of PMO provides training, templates, best practices, lessons learned in a consultative role?
Supportive
PMO has low level of control
What type of PMO has project managers assigned that reprot directly to the PMO?
Directive
PMO has high level of control
What type of PMO will define specific frameworks and methods to be used?
Controlling
PMO has medium level of control
List the diffrent project roles
- Program and portfolio managers
- Project manager
- Sponsor
- Stakeholders
- Project Coordinators when project managers are not used
What project role is responsible for the successful completion of programs and portfolios?
Program and portfolio managers
What project role are individuals who are involved and/or impacted (positively/negatively) by a project?
Stakeholders
What project role is used when a project manager is not used?
Project coordinator
What project role is used when an individual is responsible for leading the team to achieve the project objectives?
Project manager
What project role provids project resources and is accountable for enabling project success?
Sponsor
What are we always thinking about when we think about stakeholders?
How to best comunicate with the stakeholders.
