Assessment of Project Integration Management Practices for Project Success: Case of Integrated Shallow Groundwater Development Project in Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Seifu Mamo (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Belete Bantero | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-07T12:10:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-07T12:10:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The project integration management practices have utmost impacts on driving execution, managing performance, and ensuring project’s meet requirements and objectives holistically; since it fosters proper coordination of the various elements of processes and people, managing resources, stakeholders, and deliverables efficiently and effectively. To address the research questions and incorporate the advantages of both methodologies, a mixed research methodology that integrated parts of quantitative and qualitative research was used in this study. Several secondary data and information were combined with the primary data acquired using Google Forms and quantitatively analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 28.0.1.1 (15) software. The analysis revealed that while 20% of participants had concerns, 80% of respondents recognized that project integration management practices significantly improved the project performance, assisted in identifying and addressing major challenges, and helped deliver project objectives on time and within budget while also meeting the performance and quality requirements outlined in the project scope. Essentially, the project met predefined goals, as out of the planned 168,189km2, the achieved target was 234.8K km2 (139.6%) as validated by all descriptive analysis. The consolidated analysis has shown that, project initiation has the highest mean (4.3), followed by planning (4.0) and execution (4.0). The monitoring and control (mean 3.9), closure (3.4) and project success factor (3.5) have indicated higher consistency descriptively and with secondary information support. The standard deviation (SD), 0.56 to 0.77 for all variables, respectively, between one and two SDs (0.68 and 0.95), normally distributed. A positive r value has been observed (linearly, r, 0.876 and polynomial, r, 0.889, whereas the Bivariate Correlations for project closing, 0.754, execution, 0.520, initiation, 0.594, monitoring & evaluation, 0.650 and project planning, 0.581) versus success variables as well as multinomial logistic regression, r greater than 10 Likelihood Ratio Tests result, the likelihood ratio chi-square of initiation, 46.253, planning, 48.260, execution, 77.278, monitoring and evaluation, 64.091 and closing, 81.408 with a p-value < 0.001. The findings can serve as a valuable lesson for several prevailing problems, including subpar work, low productivity, cost overruns, stakeholders’ dissatisfaction, and ultimate project failure in Ethiopia caused by fragmented responsibilities, ineffective coordination, poor planning, substandard implementation practices due to weak integration among sectors | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2243 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | Assessment of Project Integration Management Practices for Project Success: Case of Integrated Shallow Groundwater Development Project in Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Thesis |