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What is the difference between External Complexity and Internal complexity risk profiles in a project - discuss with examples

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External Complexity

Projects that have a high score in the external complexity category in the DPCI are larger and longer than usual for the project management group and the project manager and the available resources are lacking. Due to lack of experience on this size project, unknown risks are significant. The inadequacy of resources will cause risks that are more predictable.

Internal Complexity

Projects with high scores for internal complexity have risks to the budget, schedule, and quality due to organizational complexity and changes of scope due to lack of clarity in project and scope statements.

• High scores for external complexity imply high risks to the schedule, budget, and quality due to unknown factors and limited resources.
• High scores for internal complexity imply high risks to the budget, schedule, and quality due to organizational complexity and changes of scope due to lack of clarity in project and scope statements.

So, for example the internal complexity will only be reduced under the assumption of fixed input, fixed external complexity, to represent that given input more efficiently, but when the system wants to handle additional, new input, to increase its external complexity, it may then also first increase its internal complexity and thereby create the potential for a subsequent reduction of the internal complexity on another time scale perhaps. The increase of internal complexity can for example occur through the creation of redundancy, e.g. duplication of some internal units or structures.

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