An assessment of the project planning on project performance in SNNPR roads authority of Hossana district roads authority construction projects.
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2018-10-02
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Addis Ababa University
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Analysis of the completed projects illustrate that a significant number of projects exceed the planned time and costs and consequently reducing the benefits. Among many causes of project failure, it is clearly identified that poor planning has an impact on project performance. The main objective of the project work report presented in this paper was to assess the role of project planning on project performance in SNNPR of Hossana district roads authority roads and bridge construction projects. In order to achieve the objectives, information of past projects was collected from 20 employees from different departments the district.
A questionnaire survey conducted to collect datd from the respondents that consisted of project manager, regional supervisors, and other related respondents. The study used SPSS version 16 for descriptive statistics and correlation analysis, and hypotheses to test and to know the relationship of among planning processes, factors and planning knowledge areas.
The findings of this project work report indicate that the main planning input factors that affect the performance of planning processes are: - human, management, technical and organizational factors. And also the finding identifies the main problem areas in planning processes as risk, communication, and quality of human resource knowledge areas were inadequately performed in the studied project. The result of the finding also identifies 15 influential planning activities that affect the performance of project out come. This report recommends an organization that conducts any project should improve the poor planning performance of the identified planning knowledge areas. It should be also important for the organization to spend more efforts in the identified planning activities to improve the performance of their project outcome.
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important for the organization to spend, planned time and costs and consequently, completed projects illustrate