Organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors

The importance of these two things is that we may all be in different industries, have different best practices or policies, and the culture of our organization affects the politics and who the organization is. The easiest way to remember these is to look at the middle words: process and environment. This refers to how your organization does things and who your organization is. The reason they are considered inputs for almost every single process is that PMI® is not insinuating that you have to do any of the best practices. The consideration of your current organizational processes and environment needs to be present and accounted for in every project. If you learn something new that can benefit your organization, then by all means, update both as needed.

Keep in mind that you are learning standards and not regulations. There isn't any have to on the exam (except for a project charter and formal closure...