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    The Assessment of Project Planning Practice and It’s Challenges in The Case of Ethio Telecom Head Office
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-10) Yosef Meskele; Wasihun Mohammed (PhD)
    The study aim to assess the practice and challenges of project planning practice in Ethio telecom head office, the study used both qualitative and quantitative research approach and the data obtained through questionnaire has been analyzed using descriptive statistics. Since the number of stuffs of project management office in Ethio telecom is manageable, census is used. To acquire the intended information the researcher used structurally designed questionnaire. Both primery and secondary data’s were also used on the research. Frequency, percentage, mean and standard devition were used to analyze the data obtained. The result of the study indicated that most of the project planning processes were poorly practiced mainly with respect to the 10 most important project management knowledge areas, the study mainly reveled project quality management planning, project schedule management plan, project risk management plan, project integration management plan, project communication management plan and stakeholders management plan were poorly planned and require a serious effort to improve the gaps. The study also identified the application of project planning tools and stakeholder’s participation on the project plan is so limited and improvement is needed to make the plan more effective. Some of the major challenges identified on the study were lack of time management so projects were not execute as per the planned schedule, lack of clarity on communication, poor project quality standards, absense of project risk identification and risk response plan and luck of adequate project management training. Thus, the study suggest the organization give emphases on project planning by considering all known project management knowledge areas and to use more advanced project planning tools and techniques and to provide training and development programs for the project management office stuffs. Key Words: project planning practice, project planning tools, challenges of project planning