Impact of Soft Project Management Skills on Deliverables of Project Team: Case Study of Projects of Kifiya Financial Technology
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2018-06-04
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study has three primary objectives of this study is to find evidence that there is relationship
between soft skills and project team deliverables, examine the existence of relationship between
soft project management skills and project team deliverables, and identify which of the soft skills
impacting most project teams’ deliverables. To answer these questions a questionnaire was
developed and disseminated among project employees of Kifiya Financial Technology.
As per response obtained from project team members it was able to fit bivariate ordinal regression
model and correlation analysis to see if there was relationship between soft project management
skills and project team deliverables. It resulted in positive relationship but to answer the other
questions multivariate regression model was used and found the coefficients to be 0.973, 2.147,
1.554, and 2.307 for leadership, conflict management, communication and team building
respectively. These coefficients mean, one unit increase in the predictor result the response
variable level on log-odds scale to change by its respective regression coefficient while holding
other variables constant. From this model we have found that team building to have influence the
most on project deliverability and leadership skill has the least influence.
This study has concluded that soft project management skills have significant effect in
deliverability of project team accordingly, focus should be given to in enhancing soft skills of
project management and further study regarding soft project management skills incorporating
additional attributes in IT industry or other should be conducted to uncover more unanswered
questions.
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Leadership, Conflict Management, Communication, Team Building