Scope Change Management: Implication for Building Construction Projects Success, a Case of Ethiopian Construction Design & Supervision Works Corporation- Building & Urban Design & Supervision Works Sector
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2021-06-07
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this research paper is to study scope change management: Implication for Building Construction Projects Success, a Case of Ethiopian Construction Design & Supervision Works Corporation-Building & Urban Design & Supervision Works Sector. The five factors that have been examined in this study are requirement collection, project scope definition, creating WBS, scope verification and scope control. A total number of responses from 154 respondents were used for analysis in this research study. Questionnaires with closed ended and five point Likert scale items were used as instrument to collect data for the research. The data collected were analyzed in SPSS 20.0 Version. Descriptive statistics was used to explain the demographic characteristics of respondents and to discuss the descriptive report of responses provided by the respondents by measuring, mean and standard deviation. The result has shown that overall mean for the five aspects of project scope change management, the score for requirement collection, scope definition, WBS creation, scope verification and scope control were 2.521, 2.75, 3.20, 2.420 and 2.593, respectively which were all less than the cut-off point developed by Alfarra (2009) which indicates that the five aspects of project scope change management mentioned above are not properly practiced in BUDSWS and need further improvement. This study result is based on descriptive analysis scope change management Thus, it is suggested that future researchers conduct explanatory research to find out the variables that shows level of effect of the aspects of project scope change management using inferential statistical analysis.
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Scope change management, requirement collection, scope definition, Work Breakdown Structure, scope verification, scope control