Assessment of Relative Application of Project Integration Management During Project Execution and Monitoring & Controlling Cycles: The Case of Kilinto Pharmaceutical Industrial Park Prepared
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2020-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Project Integration Management is the only knowledge are, among the ten identified by the
project management institute, that focuses on smoothing of the overall project processes and
checking the level of agreement between all the other knowledge areas, project processes and
deliverables. It is indeed the only area that has processes in all the project lifecycles. Most of its
processes are mapped to be in the project execution and project monitoring and controlling
cycles. The project study focuses on assessing relative application of project integration
management during project execution and project monitoring and controlling life cycles from
project team perspectives. The project study is conducted taking a real case application area in
one of the public industrial projects, Kilinto Pharmaceutical Industrial Park through employing
census sampling due to limited number of project participants. Having collected both primary
and secondary data, the study employed a mixed research approach and used the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for data analysis. A very good reliability test is observed on
the collected data. Factors with Eigenvalue of 1 and more extracted applying 0.5 factor loading.
It is basically observed that project integration management is perceived as the most important
area in delivering a successful project overall and applied accordingly. There are few occasions
during the project lifecycle where integration management is thought to have less significance
than other knowledge areas like project scope management and project risk management. In
addition, it is specifically identified in the results that two components, components having 11
extracted items (factors) represent most of the variance explained. As a result, it is concluded,
the project implementing team should focus mainly on the two components in times of priority
and then on the other two components which explains lower proportion of the variance having
seven extracted items. Depending solely on findings of the project study, recommendations are
forwarded both to the project organization and the project team. Potential Future Research
areas of the project lifecycles, integration management in all project phases and assessing
project integration management impact are forwarded.
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Project Integration Management, Knowledge Areas, Industrial Parks, Project Execution, Project Monitoring and Controlling