Assessment of the Common Project Failure Causes at Addis Ababa Housing Development Project Office to Propose a Solution Based on PMKAs
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2021-02-22
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Projects failure is a common phenomenon in the current society. The construction industry is
one of the most practical examples of project based industries. Amongst the multitude
construction projects here in Addis Ababa, one is the Housing Development Project with the
main objective of addressing the housing needs of the city and other socio-economic goals.
However, according to the reports the Addis Ababa Housing Development and
Administration Bureau, only 180,000 houses have been delivered to the beneficiaries since
the establishment of the project office in 2005, that means it has failed to achieve its
objectives as of the conventional success metrics. Due to this, it becomes critical to
understand the most significant causes that hindered the project to succeed. Hence, this study
is aimed to identify the most significant project failure causes of the office, the knowhow and
practice of PM theories and concepts, and the ten PMKAs, of course, based on the
perceptions of the practitioners in the project execution.
This case study is an exploratory type and used a mixed method approach research design
with a multi-level cluster sampling techniques. The data was collected using documents
reviews, semi-structured interview and questionnaires; and the analysis was made using
thematic analysis and SPSS tools sequentially for qualitative and quantitative date
consecutively.
Manpower, Planning and Procurement related causes were found to be most significant, and
the assessment revealed that the PM theories and the ten PMKAs neither known well nor
practiced in the project office. Eventually an attempt was made to relate the identified most
significant causes with the PMKAs. As the most significant project failure causes were
directly related with the PMKAs like PMI, PHRM and PPM, a more intense Project
Management expertise and practices were recommended for the improvement of the project
office’s performance.
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Project failure, project failure causes, Project management Knowledge Areas, most significant causes