Chapter 2: Internal vs External Enterprise Environment Factors

Internal

organizational culture, structure, governance
Your organization's mission, beliefs, culture, leadership, organizational hierarchy and authority relationships.

External

marketplace conditions
Describes the climate your business operated within. Consider your organization's competitors, market share, brand recognition, and other factors that affect how you manage your project.

External

social and cultural influences
The political climate, ethics, and perceptions about your business or trade can affect how you manage the project.

Internal

geographic distribution of facilities and resources
The location of resources affect how you manage the project, access resources, and schedule work.

External

legal restrictions
Laws and regulations that directly affected your project, how you conduct business, and how you protect data

External

commercial databases
Utilizing commercial databases to help predict duration of tasks, costs, risks, and what-if scenarios.

Internal

infrastructure
The facilities, equipment, IT hardware and software, and capabilities of the infrastructure are enterprise environmental factors that can limit, or propel, a project.

External

academic research
Publications, benchmarking, and industry studies that affect project decisions are enterprise environment factors to consider. This information could come from a university, trade associations, or groups.

External

government or industry standards
Your organization may be required to adhere to government or industry standards regarding your project's production, quality of work, or production your organization creates.

Internal

resource availability
The time at which resources are available for your project will affect when your project can be completed. Resources include people, equipment, facilities, and materials.

External

financial considerations
Includes international projects and currency exchange rates, interest rates, inflation rates for long-term projects, and other financial considerations that can influence project decisions.

External

physical environment elements
Where the project work will take place introduces external enterprise environmental factors that can affect project decisions. The weather, access to job sites, and other constraints are all external enterprise environment factors.

Internal

employee capability
The expertise of your project team members. Their skills and knowledge can directly affect the project work