Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF) and Organizational Process Assets (OPA)

Instructions: Match the items in the middle to the appropriate column to the left or right. The first one was done for
you.

Enterprise Environmental Item Organizational Process Asset

Factor (EEF) (OPA)
Lessons learned Lessons learned

Competition
Available resources

Proposal evaluation criteria

Geographic distribution

Government regulation

Company policy
Procedures

Job market report

Parametric estimation rates

Code of conduct

Marketplace conditions
Work authorization system

Project closure guidelines

Organizational culture

Standard template
Infrastructure
The organization’s values

Past project files

Stakeholder attitudes

Project lifecycles

Historical information

External political conditions

Recommended workflows

Staffing guidelines

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 Enterprise Environmental Item Organizational Process Asset
Factor (EEF) (OPA)
Lessons learned Lessons learned

Competition Competition

Available resources Available resources

Proposal evaluation criteria Proposal evaluation criteria

Geographic distribution Geographic distribution

Government regulation Government regulation

Company policy Company policy

Procedures Procedures

Job market report Job market report

Parametric estimation rates Parametric estimation rates

Code of conduct Code of conduct

Marketplace conditions Marketplace conditions

Work authorization system Work authorization system

Project closure guidelines Project closure guidelines

Organizational culture Organizational culture
Standard template Standard template

Infrastructure Infrastructure
The organization’s values The organization’s values
Past project files Past project files

Stakeholder attitudes Stakeholder attitudes

Project lifecycles Project lifecycles

Historical information Historical information
External political conditions External political conditions

Recommended workflows Recommended workflows

Staffing guidelines Staffing guidelines

Organizational process assets help organizations to continuously improve their process, help project management teams to learn, and share the best practices by
using a collective knowledge base. Enterprise environmental factors may or may not help your organizations. These are the conditions in which your organization has
to work. These do not fall under the control of the project management team1. Policy & procedures related to doing the project specific work should fall under OPA,
since they are more like guiding factors. Policy and Procedures of the organization like employment, recruitment policy, employee retrenchment policy comes under
EEF, since they are the factors which you need to consider and as a project manager, you cannot update them2.

1
Usmani - 2016
2
Bansai - 2014
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