| Abstract: | Telecom industry is complex and competitive, and its projects are characterized by their importance and complexity. The telecom operator has a great importance not only to the economic and social life, but also to the needs and inspiration of the local culture. To achieve customer satisfaction and company revue telecom companies have to initiate and complete projects to scope, schedule, cost and quality. The objective of the study is to investigate the correlation between Project Management Effectiveness and Project Success terms of Organizational culture, Leadership ability, Technical competency, Project Manager, Project team, and Stakeholders. The single-case study conducted in this study were modern project-oriented business companies such as ethio-telecom based on the recent Addis Ababa LTE Advanced project. The thesis hence emphasizes the need to understand effective project management as an area of management in which various players share the responsibility for its Initiation, planning, design, executing, monitoring, and closing. The research employed correlational research method. Main data sources were 15 respondents participated in filling the survey instrument. Quantitative data analysis techniques such as one-sample t-tests and correlation analyses were conducted, and research findings were identified. The data analyses revealed that the LTE project was performed in accordance with project management approach; and was highly successful and effective. The effectiveness and success of the project were highly related, r=0.670., which revealed that 44.9 % of the project success was due to the effectiveness of the project in terms of leadership, organizational culture, technology competency, and management effectiveness. The research concludes that project effectiveness had considerable effect on the project success, but other measures may be required to fully explain the overall success of the LTE project. |
