Enterprise The highest level endeavor, consisting of a collection of related programs that are managed as a single unit Abstract Enterprise within the OPF taxonomy of method components Endeavor Corporation Profit and Loss (P&L) Center Business Unit Elimininate unnecessary redundancies (e.g., duplicate effort and costs) between related programs of projects. Ensure standardization (e.g., development process, technology, platforms, and legacy integration) across related programs. Improve reuse (e.g., of work products, developer training) across related programs. Improve effort, schedule, and cost estimation across related programs. Minimize development and maintainance costs across multiple related applications produced by multiple related programs. Enterprises are rarely modeled unless entprises produce standard methods. Open Process Framework Repository Organsiation Donald Firesmith enterprise endeavor