tailieunhanh - Lecture Information technology project management (Sixth Edition): Chapter 12 - Kathy Schwalbe

Chapter 12 - Project procurement management. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Understand the importance of project procurement management and the increasing use of outsourcing for information technology projects; describe the work involved in planning procurements for projects, including determining the proper type of contract to use and preparing a procurement management plan, statement of work, source selection criteria, and make-or-buy analysis;. | Note: See the text itself for full citations. Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Understand the importance of project procurement management and the increasing use of outsourcing for information technology projects Describe the work involved in planning procurements for projects, including determining the proper type of contract to use and preparing a procurement management plan, statement of work, source selection criteria, and make-or-buy analysis Discuss what is involved in conducting procurements and strategies for obtaining seller responses, selecting sellers, and awarding contracts Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Understand the process of administering procurements by managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance Describe the process of closing procurements Discuss types of software available to assist in project procurement management Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Procurement means acquiring goods and/or services from an outside source Other terms include purchasing and outsourcing Experts predict that global spending on computer software and services will continue to grow People continue to debate whether offshore outsourcing helps their own country or not Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Some companies, such as Wal-Mart, prefer to do no outsourcing at all, while others do a lot of outsourcing Most organizations do some form of outsourcing to meet their IT needs and spend most money within their own country The . temporary workforce continues to grow as people work for temporary job agencies so they can more easily move from company to company Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Application development is the most popular form of IT outsourcing and was used by 53 percent of organizations surveyed The IT function with the largest percentage of work outsourced is disaster recovery services, . | Note: See the text itself for full citations. Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Understand the importance of project procurement management and the increasing use of outsourcing for information technology projects Describe the work involved in planning procurements for projects, including determining the proper type of contract to use and preparing a procurement management plan, statement of work, source selection criteria, and make-or-buy analysis Discuss what is involved in conducting procurements and strategies for obtaining seller responses, selecting sellers, and awarding contracts Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition Understand the process of administering procurements by managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance Describe the process of closing procurements Discuss types of software available to assist in project procurement management Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition .