Implementation of Project Portfolio Management and Its Challenges: The Case of Ethio Telecom Wireless Network Program of Addis Ababa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mohammed, Abdurezak (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bekele, Addisalem | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-01T10:23:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T14:27:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-01T10:23:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T14:27:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Project portfolio management (PPM) is a tool-supported process for optimally selecting and managing the organizations’ portfolio of projects (Markhofer, 2013). Abundant literatures shows that the implementation of PPM is essential to maximize the ability of using scarce resource efficiently, to avoid misdirected effort in an organization, to better manage risk, to reduce project costs, primarily though elimination of duplicate effort and so forth. However, Markhofer in (2013) stated that portfolio project management can provide real value, but many organizations are finding implementing PPM difficult. The road to PPM is often rocky for many organizations and successfully implementing PPM is difficult failures are not uncommon. This study raised on the fact that different studies show it is very essential for the achievement of corporate goal of an organization but has different challenges of implementation. So that it had an objective to study the implementation of PPM practice and its challenges on a selected portfolio. The selected portfolio was the Addis Ababa Wireless Network portfolio of Ethio Telecom. It holds four projects that are highly interrelated. The data were collected from group of participants who had a direct involvement on the management of the project portfolio using census and purposive sampling. Questionnaire was prepared both on open ended and close ended type. Unstructured interview was also employed for managers of the portfolio. The data were analyzed qualitatively through description and quantitatively with the use of SPSS version 20 software using stastical tool of mean score, standard deviation and percentage. It has been revealed that how an organization manages its project portfolio is highly interrelated with its challenges. That refers to that when maturity of PPM of an organization increases, capability to handle and prevents the different challenges of PPM increases and reaping of all the benefits of PPM practice can be achieved, Effective capturing and dissemination of lesson learned and best practices of the application of PPM for all stakeholders of PPM are essential, communication regarding strategic direction of project portfolio for all the stakeholders is essential for creating a devotion to strategy throughout the structure of PPM governance, integration management is critical factor for successful implementation at the same time handling of challenges of PPM; so that the role of PMO to give an organizational focus on improving the management of project portfolio and builds up a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing projects portfolio is essential | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/13585 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Project Portfolio Management | en_US |
| dc.subject | strategy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Project Management Office (PMO) | en_US |
| dc.title | Implementation of Project Portfolio Management and Its Challenges: The Case of Ethio Telecom Wireless Network Program of Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |