Assessment of Project Management Critical success Factors in Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Project Office
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2018-06-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
There is empirical evidence that project sphere has not been valued appropriately in many
organizations because it seems certain that the organization’s projects are not unified and
consequently spread across several other spheres. However, it is necessary to know the concept
of project and project management at the same time are made magnificent in increasingly projectoriented
organizations in order to achieve the organizational goals. This study aimed at a better
understanding of when and why projects fail or succeed as well as what project management
factors are influential. Therefore, an empirical assessment on this topic was performed. Although
many studies have explored success/failure factors in projects, a few of them are comprised of the
perception that to what extent project’s success or failure factors are noteworthy and likewise
what really are a successful project and/or a failure project. The study doesn’t consider the
projects themselves, rather how the office is managing them. Therefore, the rationale of the thesis
was on identifying those critical project management practices. As observed from the research,
the top management support, project mission, planning, client involvement, trouble shooting,
client acceptance, monitoring and feedback and communication are relevant to the office’s
management practice and have strong association given the current project management practice
and performance measurement criteria are traditional in nature. The study was done with a mixed
research design and the respondents were selected from the main office of Addis Ababa Integrated
Housing Development project office. Both the descriptive statistics and the statistical correlational
analysis results shown that the factors identified from literatures were understood and applied by
the office to some extent. The gap was seen from understanding the project goal through trouble
shooting issues. The result shown that there is strong association within and across variables. The
pattern and structure matrix figure were utilized to select the top five critical factors. Accordingly,
top management support, personnel, technical tasks, monitoring and feedback and communication
were selected as the top five critical factors in the project office.
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Critical Factor, Project Management critical success factors, IHDPO