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PROJECT PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT
Most of the material in Section 12 of the PMBOK® Guide is applicable to procurement management for software projects. This section of the Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide presents additional considerations for managing software project procurements.
The introduction to Section 12 of the PMBOK® Guide states: “Project Procurement Management includes the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. The organization can be either the buyer or seller of the products, services, or results of a project.”
Large software organizations, like other engineering organizations, typically have a procurement department that deals with contracting issues ...
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