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Assignment

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 the 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 four quality sources, two of which must be current, scholarly resources. For this assignment, current, scholarly sources are peer-reviewed journal articles published within the most recent three years and accessed from the library databases or other academic sources.