tailieunhanh - Lecture Information technology project management (Eighth Edition): Chapter 12

Lecture Information technology project management (Eighth Edition): Chapter 12, after studying this section will help you understand: Understand the importance of project procurement management and the increasing use of outsourcing for information technology (IT) 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. | Information Technology Project Management Eighth Edition Note See the text itself for full citations. Understand the importance of project procurement management and the increasing use of outsourcing for information technology IT 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 how to conduct procurements and strategies for obtaining seller responses selecting sellers and awarding contracts Information Technology Project Management Eighth Edition Copyright 2016 2 Understand the process of controlling procurements by managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance Describe the process of closing procurements Discuss types of software that are available to assist in project procurement management Information Technology Project Management Eighth Edition Copyright 2016 3 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 Garner estimated the value of the global IT industry in 2014 at trillion People continue to debate whether offshore outsourcing helps their own country or not Information Technology Project Management Eighth Edition Copyright 2016 4 A recent approach to bring IT jobs back to the . is called urban onshoring especially for functions like software testing For example the Urban Development Center model develops the infrastructure resources and jobs in low-income urban neighborhoods to provide technology education training and job placement services for over 4 500 unemployed and low-income adults in New York City Information Technology Project Management Eighth Edition Copyright 2016 5 Some companies such as Wal-Mart prefer to do no outsourcing at all while others do a