Factors Affecting Success of Projects in Addis Ababa City Roads Authority
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bogale, Mengistu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tena, Tigist | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-08T07:17:13Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T14:28:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-08T07:17:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T14:28:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The objective of this study is to identify the causes behind the observed project delays, project cost overruns and quality problems of the project deliverables of Addis Ababa City Roads Authority. Moreover, providing a framework that will be used to improve the future performance of projects at the authority was also intended. The study has utilized primary and secondary data sources. Primary data has been collected through questionnaire and interviews while secondary data was collected through a documentation review of progress and completion reports of the authority. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data collected. The factors affecting the three success dimensions were identified through the questionnaires and interviews. Accordingly, the major factors identified as affecting project delays were found to be poor coordination with other stakeholders (including EEPCO, ETC and AAWSA), Delays in administration of right of way obstruction removal, delay in provision of resources and machineries and design and scope changes. On the other hand, Project cost overruns of the authority has been found to be mostly influenced by penalty, claims and overhead costs in relation to project delays, poor coordination between stakeholders resulting Reworks and misalignment and inadequate planning and scope changes. Quality problems of AACRA’s project deliverables of projects are basically caused by lack of complete and updated quality policy and quality assurance manuals, Poor quality of construction materials, Poor coordination with other stakeholders and Lack of skilled and committed manpower to quality. Besides, the study has revealed that though projects undertaken by AACRA are mostly subjected to scope and design changes, the authority has no strategy towards change management and this is resulting costly way of incorporating changes. Lessons learned from past projects and documentation practice of AACRA were as well found to be poor resulting in difficulty to trace progress of ongoing projects and rising the probability that mistakes will be repeated in future projects. Finally, based on the other factors identified to be affecting the success of projects in the authority, recommendations were forwarded and a framework which can be utilized to improve AACRA’s project performance was developed. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/13935 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Primary data | en_US |
| dc.subject | Descriptive analysis | en_US |
| dc.subject | recommendations | en_US |
| dc.title | Factors Affecting Success of Projects in Addis Ababa City Roads Authority | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |