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12.3 Administer Procurements The process of managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract performance, and making changes and corrections as needed. Simple Version: Ongoing account management, any commercial relationship that goes on for a while will likely need management. |
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Inputs Procurement documents Project management plan Source selection criteria Contract Performance reports Approved change requests Work performance information Tools and Techniques Contract change control system Procurement performance reviews Inspections and audits Performance reporting Payment systems Claims administration Records management system Outputs Procurement documentation Organizational process assets updates Change requests Project management plan updates |
Inputs Procurement documents Project management plan Source selection criteria Contract Performance reports Approved change requests Work performance information Tools and Techniques Contract change control system Procurement performance reviews Inspections and audits Performance reporting Payment systems Claims administration Records management system Outputs Procurement documentation Organizational process assets updates Change requests Project management plan updates For agile projects the nature of a contractual agreement could well be quite different. The DSDM Consortium developed a free agile contract template that might be of use for organizations looking to incorporate elements such as “re-prioritization”, and “flexing of requirements” with “fitness for business purpose” as opposed to conformance to specification as a target objective. Client directed work within a fixed budget or timeline helps avoid the Change Control hell that can occur with many onerous Chance Request processes. |
Leading a Team That’s Part Machine: 5) AI Agent Impacts on Project Management
This is the 5th and last installment in my series about Leading a Team that’s Part Machine. The earlier articles are available here: Introduction to the series and why the future will likely include hybrid human / AI teams What constitutes a real agent and how most current ‘agents’ lack the agency to act Agent frameworks, API tokens and local AI: the infrastructure that runs agents Agentic pipelines and orchestration: getting agents to do meaningful work beyond what GenAI tools can do for us today This article explores how to integrate AI Agents into regular teamwork and their likely impacts on the future of project management. To recap, I started my experiment by building AI agents 6 months ago to
