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SWOT Analysis
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—SWOT analysis—is essentially a directed risk analysis designed to identify risks and opportunities within the greater organizational context. The main difference between this and other analysis techniques is that SWOT reinforces the need to review risks and opportunities from the perspective of the organization as a whole rather than just from inside the project vacuum.
Technique Description
The technique consists of four brief idea-generation sessions held to populate the analysis documentation with answers to these questions:
What are our organization’s strengths?
What are our organization’s weaknesses?
What opportunities does this project present in that context?
What threats ...
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