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Evaluating External Business Environment Changes (ECO 3.8)

Why the World Outside Your Project Matters

Scanning Frameworks: PESTLE, TECOP, VUCA (and Six Analysis Tools)

Internal Environment Factors — Why the PM Must Know the Business

Supporting Organizational Change (ECO 3.7)

Assessing Organizational Culture (ECO 3.7.1)

Change Management vs. Change Control + the Four-Step Loop (ECO 3.7.2)

Organizational Influences: EEFs vs. OPAs

Organizational Risk: Appetite vs. Threshold

Kotter's 8-Step Change Methodology

Actions to Support Change: The Do's and Don'ts

Planning for Change — and the Rollout-Plan Trap

Continuous Improvement (ECO 3.6)

Lessons Learned: What They Are and When to Gather Them (ECO 3.6.1)

Gathering Lessons Learned: Five Best Practices

Helping Ensure Continuous Process Improvements

Updating Organizational Process Assets (ECO 3.6.3)

Managing Closures (ECO 2.10)

Why Projects Close: Fulfillment, Acceptance Criteria & Definition of Done (ECO 2.10.2)

Premature or Forced Closure

Closing Activities and the Final Report (ECO 2.10.4 foundations)

Validating Readiness for Transition: Handovers & Hypercare (ECO 2.10.3)

Benefits Realization: Timing, the Benefits Management Plan & the Benefits Owner

Obtaining Stakeholder Approval of Completion (ECO 2.10.1)

Concluding Activities: Admin Closure, Resource Release, Knowledge & Transition (ECO 2.10.4)

Checkpoint Quiz

Change Management vs. Change Control

Risk Appetite vs. Risk Threshold

EEFs vs. OPAs

The Rollout/Transition Plan Trap

Kotter Step Order

Improvement to Delivered Benefits

Hands-on Practice

Practice: Order the Integrated Change Control Steps

🎧 Audio

Listen: Episode 7 — Integrate Sustainability

External business environment, organizational change, continuous improvement, and project closure for PMP 2026 beginners — PESTLE/TECOP/VUCA, EEF/OPA, Kotter, change management, lessons learned, benefits realization, and clean closure (ECO 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 2.10).

Module 8 is about the forces outside your project (the business environment), how a project gets better over time (continuous improvement), and how a project ends properly (closure). You'll learn to scan external and internal change, lead people through it, capture lessons, and close cleanly — the last teaching module before exam prep.

Module 8: Business Environment Dynamics, Continuous Improvement & Closure

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