| Abstract: | In project management, best practice is a general term that includes guidelines & international standards. Standards also issued by specialized organizations are usually based on best practices and guidelines given by professional bodies. The main objective of the study is on assessing the project implementation practices in the AABIA Expansion project in terms of the PMBOK areas of the project implementation phase using project integration, quality, resource, risk, communication, procurement & stakeholder management. Primary data collection was done by unstructured interview; and structured questionnaire was collected from employees involved in project work selected in census survey and as to secondary data; related books, articles, journals and publication from the project office & websites were reviewed. Accordingly, descriptive research design and qualitative approach were employed as a methodology of this study. Percentages using frequency distribution table were used to analyze the data obtained.
The findings of the study showed that five of the project management knowledge areas of project implementation practices were practiced even though it was not with full extent & formal procedure. From the seven knowledge areas; all knowledge areas except project integration & resource management (mainly HRM) were practiced adequately but not in complete intent. From the five practiced knowledge areas of the project implementation practices, project procurement & communication management were more executed adequately than the others knowledge areas effectively practiced in the project. Generally, the researcher concluded that, the implementation practices of AABIA expansion project are moderately effective except on project human resource & integration management even though they lack some proper practices on the five knowledge areas. Finally, this study suggested for all the project implementation practices which seem to be implemented in the project need to follow in the full extent & the formal procedures of project management. |
