Assessment of project management practices in case of Bank of Abyssinia PMO IT projects
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The study is conducted to assess the project management practices of Bank of Abyssinia based on
the ten knowledge areas putted on project management body of knowledge. Both primary and
secondary data were employed, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were practiced. A
questionnaire which is adopted from PMBOK was used and data was collected from 40
respondents out of the total distributed to 47 respondents. The data were analyzed using SPSS
version 23. The findings from the study shows that project management practices are practiced
at good level which implies little additional efforts and knowledgeable management can maintain
and improve those practices. More over improving the practices of risk, management by
Developing risk management plan, identifying risks, performing qualitative and quantitative risk
analysis, planning risk response, implementing agreed upon risk responses and monitoring risks.
developing standard project management practices, providing project managers and team
members adequate project management practices, empowering the program management office
and project managers to exercise standard project management practices were recommended by
the researcher.
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project, project, management practices ,, knowledge areas