Find Your Fit – Project Procurement
I teach project management in a graduate certificate program which means all the students have some combination of previous post-secondary education and work experience which may or may not include project management. So my challenge in curating materials is to find different levels – for beginner, intermediate and experienced – so that there is something for all the students.
For more advanced materials, I searched all the listed general repositories for Project Management with limited success. Of the discipline specific repositories, I only searched Business (MIT Sloan School) – I will use this repository in the future for class prep and may find materials for the students to use.
For this activity, I focused on project procurement. Through the project procurement course, we use buying a car to illustrate key concepts in project procurement. So I looked for materials that would help the students relate buying a car to the project procurement process.
- Community Transportation Association of America. (2001). VEHICLE PROCUREMENT. Retrieved from University of Kansas Transportation Center: https://kutc.ku.edu/sites/kutc.ku.edu/files/docs/pdf/rtap_vehicleproc.pdf
- Although this article is directed to “community transportation providers”, it is also relevant to buying a vehicle for personal use. And the five basic steps for effective vehicle procurement provide a framework for project procurement that can be adapted to any project procurement.
After I found this reference, changed my search strategy because the other materials I found were focused on accounting and finance and found the following two references. I would actually present these references first because they are more relatable to buying a car for personal use and then introduce “VEHICLE PROCUREMENT” because it highlights a process that can be used and adapted for project procurement.
- Izzy, L. (2015, May 26). 6 Essential Tips to Consider Before Buying a Car. Retrieved from wheels.ca: https://www.wheels.ca/guides/6-essential-tips-to-consider-before-buying-a-car/
- Bodge, T. (2017, 11 1). 10 things you need to know before buying a car. Retrieved from USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/01/10-things-you-need-know-before-buying-car/814879001/
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