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Effective Vendor Management (GK2959)

Course Overview

Maximize the success of your vendor relationship-and the success of your project.
Your relationship with your vendors can often make or break a project baseline. In this short course, you will learn best practices for managing the vendor relationship from initiation to close, including documenting requirements, negotiating contract terms, and evaluating proposals. You'll learn how and why to establish clearly defined roles and responsibilities between you and your vendors.

This virtual short course, specifically designed to give you a quick convenient way to renew and refresh your project management skills, maintain your Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification, and earn PDUs on your own time, at your own pace.

Virtual short courses do not include materials or headsets.

PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Target Audience

PMP-certified project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project sponsors, and project team members who want to continue to develop their skills and renew their PMP certification.

  • Establishing the vendor relationship
  • Creating the vendor management plan
  • Documenting the vendor communication plan
  • Managing vendors throughout the project life cycle
  • Dealing with vendor issues
  • Vendor contract closeout

Course Prerequisites

  • There are no prerequisites for this course

Follow On Courses

  • IT Risk Management
  • Program Management
  • Requirements Development, Documentation, and Management