Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: A System For Value Delivery 5506 10730
This lesson provides an in-depth understanding of the environment in which every project operates, and of the two major categories of influence that shape project planning and outcomes: enterprise environmental factors (EEFs) and organizational process assets (OPAs).
The lesson highlights how EEFs — conditions the project team does not control — can constrain or enhance a project from both inside and outside the organization, and how OPAs — the organization's accumulated plans, processes, and knowledge — feed into project work as reusable inputs.
It emphasizes why a practitioner must actively scan and account for these influences, since they determine tailoring needs, shape available options, and can push a project toward a favorable, unfavorable, or neutral result. This lesson establishes the EEFs in full and introduces the OPAs; the internal structure of the OPAs is examined in the next lesson.