Enterprise Environmental VS Organizational Process

Submitted by Shazlee69 on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 05:52

Hi,


I'm having a hard time to differentiate between Enterprise Environmental Factors & Organizational Process Assets. What should go into one and what should go into another?


Is there any key word or hint for me to know like "oh this one surely come from enterprise environmental factors" or "this activity surely have an output of eterprise environmental factors".


Thanks

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cuongpt

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:07

Here a tip to differerentiate that 2 concepts. Consider the project as the boundary. If this item is in project => OPA . If this item is out of project => EEF.

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admin

Fri, 04/08/2011 - 04:06

hi

I think you should think environmental factors vs process assets. if you can get a grasp of these terms with examples you should not have any difficultly in understanding. Head first , Rita all books explain it quite well with examples.

aaron

Mon, 04/25/2011 - 14:45

Enterprise Environmental Factors are existing systems and culture that you have to live with while managing the project. They may act as a constraints for the project.

Whereas Organizational Process Assets always positively influence the project. Existing policies, procedures, lessons learnt, historical information are assets that you can use and save time on your project.

sandip.waghole

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 06:49

OPA : Organizational Process Assets

Core activities of project needs executional support from previously learnt lessons, risk/issue management or other specific ways/standards ,we say them as Organizational Process Assets (OPA) e.g. documented knowledge base of  lesson learnt in handling resource leaving risk (i.e. manage technical documentation) will help to manage and guide to tackle same risk in future endeavour passion. Also same risk can be enhanced in this project. So OPAs are also getting updated time to time. OPA soothens project lifecycle and increases success of project. OPAs are the by product of experience in project execution.

EEF: Enterprise Environmental Factors

It is the enviornment in which project is going to live. Like market place, in organization. So constrains relavant to manage organization (Policies, cultures, Personnel Administration, Working conditions ), Marketing conditions (recession, organizatiopns project communication channels) etc are known as EEFs.

sandip.waghole

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 06:50

OPA : Organizational Process Assets

Core activities of project needs executional support from previously learnt lessons, risk/issue management or other specific ways/standards etc documented knowledge base , we say them as Organizational Process Assets (OPA) e.g. documented knowledge base of  lesson learnt in handling resource leaving risk (i.e. manage technical documentation) will help to manage and guide to tackle same risk in future endeavour passion. Also same risk can be enhanced in this project. So OPAs are also getting updated time to time. OPA soothens project lifecycle and increases success of project. OPAs are the by product of experience in project execution.

EEF: Enterprise Environmental Factors

It is the enviornment in which project is going to live. Like market place, in organization. So constrains relavant to manage organization (Policies, cultures, Personnel Administration, Working conditions ), Marketing conditions (recession, organizatiopns project communication channels) etc are known as EEFs.

khaberz

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 10:19

This description makes sense to me - with one notable exception: The PMBOK (4.3.2.2) notes the Project Management Information System under EEF. Why?

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Jayshil Mehta

Fri, 05/25/2012 - 04:17

Is that like OPA are the influence providers to the project success(i.e +ve sense) while EEF may provide constraints to the projects?