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Written by Elizabeth Harrin from RebelsGuideToPM.com.
Strategy plays a huge part in whether or not your project is going to be a success. Yes – things decided way above your pay grade influence the outcomes of your project.
That happens through risk. The corporate approach to strategy (or lack of it) massively shapes how your project is going to be carried out, implemented and delivered. The framework in which your project is being managed is of course influential – I’d say it was one of the enterprise environmental factors that shapes how you need to act on the project.
The risk profile of your project changes depending on your project’s context. A project in my company will have different outcomes to the same project (even if we hypothetically believed it would be delivered by the same project team) because the corporate approach to project management is different. The risk appetite would be different.
Strategy brings risk to your project in numerous ways. I’ve called out three of the main strategic factors that influence risk on your project in the video below.
"If they have moving sidewalks in the future, when you get on them, I think you should have to assume sort of a walking shape so as not to frighten the dogs."
