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Chap 2. Influential Environments - Coggle Diagram
Chap 2. Influential Environments
Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)
EXTERNAL to the project and ofter OUTSIDE the ENTERPRISE
Legal restrictions
Social and cultural influences and issues
Marketplace conditions
Commercial databases
Academic research
Government or industry standards
Financial considerations
Physical environmental elements
INTERNAL to the Organization
Infrastructure
Information technology software
Geographic distribution of facilities and resources
Resource availability
Organizational culture, structure, and governance
Employee capability
Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)
Internal to the organization
Can include information learned from previous projects and historical information
They can be grouped into:
Organizational knowledge bases
Policies,Processes and Procedures
ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS
GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
Policies
Procedures
Rules
Norms
Relationships
Systems
Processes
GOVERNANCE = organizational or structural arrangements at all levels of an organization designed to determine and influence the behavior of the organization's members
Roles
Structure
People
Policies
Direction and oversight
System Factors
Organizational Systems
Projects operate within the constraints imposed by the organization through their structure and governance framework.
PM needs to know where responsibility, accountability, and authority reside within the organization
Systems = collection of various components
Component = identifiable element within the project or organization that provides a particular function or group of related functions.
System principles
Components can be optimized
Systems and components cannot be optimized at the same time
Can be optimized
Systems are non-linear in responsiveness
Are dynamic
Organizational Structures
Matrix - weak
Matrix - balanced
Matrix - Strong
Project oriented (composite or hybrid)
Multi-divisional
Virtual
Functional (centralized)
Hybrid
Organic or Simple
PMO*
Standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques.
Supportive
Controlling
Directive
Primary function = support project managers