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Organizations have internal processes, constraints, and requirements — the “guard rails” within which projects are expected to operate — even where the project team has authority and autonomy. Additionally, external factors such as environmental or regulatory restrictions often exist to which an organization is ultimately held accountable. Projects must be tailored to ensure that organizational needs are satisfied.

Let’s consider an organization that provides contract engineering services to government clients and similar services to private sector clients. The government clients require stringent time-keeping practices and routinely subject their vendors to financial audits. Failing an audit would result in the loss of the government business so, for this reason, the organization requires all associates to log all time, for all projects (government and private), to the nearest 15-minute increment.

The resources on your project to design, build, and deliver a custom software application for a fixed fee, to a private sector client, must adhere to the same organizational requirement. Your private sector client is not aware of the actual number of hours your team expends to deliver their custom software application nor is that information of interest to them. Your client is concerned that their software application is delivered on schedule for the agreed-upon fee, and that it satisfies the business requirements they provided. Rigorous timekeeping does not add value to your project or for your client, yet you must ensure that project team members record their time in accordance with your organization’s policy. This is an example of tailoring your project to satisfy organizational requirements.