Best Practices for Outsourcing Project Work: Project Management Concepts

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Properly defined procedures and requirements...............................................................2
Extensive team building and training activities...............................................................3
Established processes of conflict management................................................................3
Status updates and frequent review.................................................................................3
Co-location when required..............................................................................................3
Intensive laden and fair contracts....................................................................................4
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................4
References............................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The term outsourcing is traditionally used for transferring various business processes or
functions like IT accounting, customer support and many more to others. The companies to
whom these functions are provided are usually foreign companies (Ahmed 2018). An example of
this is suppose an organization is facing a problem in their internet connection so they call the
internet provider, they would supposedly talk to the technician in Bucharest Romania, Bangalore
or any other place. This assignment discusses regarding outsourcing, it further discusses
regarding various best ways by which outsourcing of project work can be done using best
practices.
Discussion
Outsourcing is applied for the purpose of contracting various chunks of the project work.
For example, Dell and HP work with numerous manufacturers that are concerned with hard
drives in order to develop laptops of next generation (Brinkkemper and Jansen 2016). Toyota
and many other companies collaborate with various suppliers in order to develop platform for
new automobiles. Outsourcing project work can be done by following various practices, some
best practices in outsourcing
Properly defined procedures and requirements: convincing people belonging to
different organizations, cultures or professions is very challenging. This practice includes
mentioning of deliverables and necessities of the task that has to be outsourced in details. In this
practice, the requirements in terms of technical works need to be spelled out but in various firms,
the systems of project management work with organizations that are less developed (Erdogmus,