An organization's cultural norms and structure influence how projects are performed. A cultural norm includes common knowledge about how a project is executed, how work is evaluated and who is influential in getting work done. An organization's structure is an enterprise environmental factor which can affect the way a project is conducted and what resources become available to the project.

An organization's culture refers to shared visions, values, norms, beliefs, expectations, policies, methods, procedures and views on authority and work ethic. Project manager must understand the organization's cultural norms that may affect a project. He must know the decision makers (individuals) and work with them to influence project success.

There are many different kinds of structures such as functional, matrix, and projectized. The project must be aware of the structure of the organization.

Organizational process assets include any process-related asset from any organization involved in the the project that can be used to influence project's success. Organizational process assets can be:

• processes and procedures: standards, policies, guidelines, templates, reports, procedures, etc.
• corporate knowledge-base: databases, project files, historical information and data.