Business Environment Interface Concepts

Personnel in the business environment who are not regular project team members will gain a better frame of reference for their participation on projects. In particular, they will be able to contribute their technical or professional expertise to the project planning effort without special skill or advance knowledge about project planning when the PMO develops (or acquires) the capability to facilitate the project planning session.

A common approach to project planning suggests that there will be more similarities than differences in the content of all project plans when a prescribed approach is used. That generally reduces review time as reviewers become familiar with the content and format. However, it particularly enables accurate and timely aggregation of similar project planning information and data for all projects in the relevant organization. This means that all projects can be examined and contrasted from a normalized perspective, project performance within a program or a portfolio can be summarized, and decisions can be made regarding overall project performance in the relevant organization.