Reference no: EM132610350
In this option, you will focus your research and writing on a physical product type project with an international component.
Your assignment is as follows:
Imagine that you are writing a scholarly paper for consumption by a new undergraduate student in the project management program. In your paper, explain the following:
• Procurement documents - including contract information for key stakeholders and suppliers, and supplier lists.
• Tools and Techniques - including interviews, focus groups, decision-making, prototypes, benchmarking, or other tools and techniques.
• Procurement management - including make-or-buy analysis, market research, and source selection documents.
• Change Requests - including corrective action, preventive action, and defect repair.
• Change Control Board - including their role in the change control system.
• Validate Scope - including methods of accepting deliverables, group decision-making, work performance information, and inspection.
• Control Procurements - including contract change control, payment systems, and claims administration.
• Project Management Ethics - including PMI expectations.
• International Project Considerations - including use of human resources from outside the United States, or executing the project outside the United States.
Your well-written paper must meet the following requirements:
• 3-5 pages in length, not including cover, references page, and appendices.
• Supporting documents must appear in appendices.
• The paper must be supported by at least 4 quality sources, of which 2 must be current, scholarly resources. For this assignment, current, scholarly sources are peer reviewed journal articles published within the most recent 3 years and accessed from the library databases or other academic sources. Textbooks will not count toward peer-reviewed requirements but may be used as quality sources if published within the most recent 3 years. The use of the PMBOK ® Guide as a quality source is strongly suggested. The PMBOK ® Guide is not a scholarly resource.