The Factors Affecting Project Planning and the Effect of Planning on Project Success
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Projects play a major role in the economic development of a country. They are the building blocks for generating additional capital and for ensuring a flow of goods and services. The
objective of the project management is to realize the planned project objectives (economic development generation of additional capital) the success of any project by its completion time within the budget cost and meet the planned performance based on the initial plan. There for planning has an important role on the project success this paper aimed only evaluating the factors affecting project planning and the effect of planning on project success This paper examines the relationship between project planning processes project success Four planning input factors (human, management, technical and organizational factors) are considered which is believed to affect the quality of planning. The study is based on data. Obtained from different construction projects performed in Ethiopia and includes an analysis on statistical correlation between planning input factors and planning processes, and between planning processes and project success. The approach that used in this research was a quantitative research approach Which makes the descriptive method more reliable and explanatory. The study used relative important index, correlation and regression Analysis to identify the key determining factors of project planning on success The finding: suggests that planning processes are incentives to human factors moreover only three project planning processes (time, cost and risk) are positively associated with the project success. Furthermore, the findings show that there are 13 important planning activities which
influence projects. This report recommends an organization that conducts any project should identify the factors affecting project planning and the effect of planning on projects success.
Keywords: Planning Knowledge Areas, Planning input factor, Project success