Assessment of Project Management Practices: A Case of Water Well Drilling Enterprise
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Application of best project management practices is of critical importance for organizational performance. It is gradually becoming an important issue in developing economies, especially in a country like Ethiopia where projects of different size and structures are undertaken; Project management provides a framework to help accomplish goals, reduce operational costs and ensure timely delivery of projects. Hence, the purpose of this study is to assess the project management practices of Water well Drilling Enterprise using the five process groups defined by PMI (PMBOK). The research used a mixed approach and adopted a descriptive research design. The primary data collection was done by using an interview and questionnaire instruments. The analysis is done qualitatively by relating the results with literatures and quantitatively using percentage, frequency and mean and for the mean value the researcher adopted previous literature style in order to categorize the mean value. Accordingly, the findings of the research revealed a moderate level of project management practice within the case public organization. The study also revealed that the levels of initiation practice has been practiced in a better way among the process groups in the organization, while the project monitoring and controlling process group has the lowest practice level. Furthermore, the study identified that the level of practice of activities related to risk, procurement, stakeholder communication, project control, cost, time and documentations are given little attention and found low. Thus, the study recommends that the organization should give more emphasis or considerable attention for processes related to project control, risk, procurement, communication, cost, time, documentation and dissemination of lessons learned during the implementation of each process groups in order to enhance the practice of project management in WWDE.
Key words: Project management, Project management Process groups, Project management practice, Water Well Drilling Enterprise.