Practice And Challenges Of Project Planning: The Case Of Satcon Construction Company Head Office In Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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2018-06-02
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Addis Ababa University
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This thesis was conducted in Satcon Construction Company Head Office, Addis Ababa with the aim of assessing the practice and challenges of project planning. Data was collected from pro-ject managers of the company, Sponsors’ representatives, a few randomly selected clients and Project team members. A total of 40 respondents were included in the study. Both the qualitative and quantitative methods were applied in collecting and analyzing the data. The samples were selected using stratified sampling and then simple random sampling technique. Two sets of ques-tionnaire were used in collecting data sets. Key informant interview and secondary data were also used to support survey report results. The study has identified the actual project planning practices of the company as well as the major challenges of the project planning process. The major challenges identified by this study include lack of awareness, lack of coordination and ab-sence of sufficient data and resources for the project planning process. The project planning process does not involve the clients and the entire project team to the required level – in decision making and benefits of the process in general. Thus concerned bodies should provide awareness creation training, advice and support to project managers and project team members as well as allocate sufficient resource and gather adequate data before the actual project planning process commences. The entire stakeholders should also take part in the project planning processes so that they would be eager to realize it since they feel it is their own plan.
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construction project planning, challenges of project planning, project team participa-tion, sufficient data and resources