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Project Risks Influenced by Organizational and External Factors

As mentioned in Chapter 5, there are four major risk groupings that are most heavily influenced by stakeholders external to the project team, the organization, and other external factors. They are referred to as product development processes, tools (productivity and infrastructure tools), resources, and business/external factors. One could argue that project managers could influence some of these, and under certain situations (e.g., under a productized organizational structure), the influence can be much more pronounced. In most circumstances, it is advisable to assign project managers possessing domain knowledge relative to the product development process their ...

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