Assessment Of Project Management Maturity Level Of Ethiopian Road Authority

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2017-06-18

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Addis Ababa University

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The paper is conducted on title assessment of project management maturity level of Ethiopian road authority. It is specifically carried out to identify weakness and strength of Project man-agement in Ethiopian road authority by identifying project management maturity level and benchmarking standard of the road authority for other project driven organizations.Structured standard questioners are prepared and distributed at ERA to project experts and project team leaders then primary data are collected. A model called micro frame self- assessment tool is used to level the maturity of project management under authority. Data are analyzed using Ms. Excel to compute average project management maturity level of ERA. Results are discussedqualitatively by comparing with theoretically and empirically accepted values and natures. Based on analysis Ethiopian road authority project management maturity level is identified to be 3 which are char-acterized by well organized, institutionalized activities and undertakings. Project risk manage-ment is relatively at lower level and project procurement management is at higher level. As a result the paper recommended that Ethiopian road authority should integrate all ten knowledge areas in the computerized system and strengthen internal networking among variable to meet performance as planned then sustain level 3.not only sustaining the level but also improvement to level 4 and level 5 are requirements.

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project management maturity, project management maturity level, project man-agement knowledge areas

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