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This balance will be key to achieving effective and sustainable strategic value realization. We used to tell students to initiate planning, scheduling, and budgeting activities after you get a scope statement or detailed statement of work. Getting to this balance is a key to future experiencing culture. This is no longer the case.
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And enterprise governance policies lean towards favoring compliance with process over satisfaction of control objectives. For process tailoring, initial changes should focus on providing guidance for a limited number of choices where previously a single choice had been prescribed.
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