What are the key elements of ''Enterprise Environmental Factors'' ?

Enterprise Environmental Factor (EEF)

Before we start discussing the enterprise environment factor, let’s understand the “environment”.

The environment can be defined as something related to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition, or the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact (Wikipedia).

The point is, the environment is a condition in which we have live with and it influences our behavior in certain way.

For example, in cold weather we need to wear woolen clothes to keep ourselves warm. Here, the cold weather is the “environment” which forces us to cover ourselves with woolen clothes.

This is the impact of this cold environment on us.

Likewise, the enterprise environmental factors influences the organization, the project and its outcome. Every organization has to live and work within the EEF.

The enterprise environment factor can be either internal or external.

Examples of external enterprise environmental factors are as follows:

Government regulation

Market conditions

Infrastructure

External political conditions

And the following are a few examples of internal enterprise environmental factors:

Organizational culture

Type of organizational structure

Internal political conditions

Available resources

Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF) are a recurring input to over 20 of the processes primarily in the Planning Process Group. These elements refer to conditions not under control of the project team that influence, constrain or direct the project.Their influence may have a positive or negative effect on the project's outcome. The key elements involving enterprise environmental factors include:

Organizational culture and structure

Government and industry standards

Existing human resources

Personnel administration

Company work authorization system*

Marketplace conditions

Stakeholder risk tolerances

Commercial databases e.g., an automated tool suite, such as a scheduling software tool, a configuration management system, an information collection

and distribution system, or web interfaces to other online automated systems).