ASSESMENT OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICE AND CHALLENGE OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THE CASE STUDY OF YOTEK CONSTRUCTION BUILDING PROJECT

Abstract

The goal of this research is to carry out "Assessment of project management practice and challenge of construction project the case study of YOTEK construction building project " in Addis Ababa. The primary goals of this project are as follows: first, to investigate project management practices during the project's initiation, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing phases; second, to identify the major project management challenge; and third, to describe the solution to the project Management Challenge. Employees of the company was involved in the sampling, and all information gathered, reviewed, and formalized from the literature review was collected, reviewed, and formalized. For this study, a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach was used, and a structured questionnaire was distributed to the Construction Engineer, Office Engineer Division head, Office Engineer, Site Engineer, Quantity Surveyor, and Resident Engineer on the Consultant side, as well as additional documented sources, including interviews. Primary data needed for the study was collected from 37 respondents which are selected used Purposive sampling obtain key informants considered knowledgeable about, and central to, project management that best may represent building Construction. The collected data was analyzed with the help of SPSS version 20.0. Then the data presented quantitatively using descriptive statistics with the help of table, frequency and percentage. Semi-structured interview was also conducted with respondent, and analyzed qualitatively by integrating secondary data obtained from Yotek construction reports. The findings of their search is analyzing the practices of project management in building construction projects undertaken by Yotek Construction from the phase starting projects up to closed out which is indicated by Average mean for the project management practice in initiation, planning ,executing, monitoring and control and closing phase is about 3.89,3.86,3.68, 3.0239 and 3.62 respectively, it is recommended that the project manager should understand project goals and objectives, check the statements that related to the practices of project management in each phases of the project. Such as initiation, planning executing, monitoring and control and closing. In addition to this the project manager and the project team should manage the ten knowledge area to meet the project successfully.