| Abstract: | The main objective of this research is to assess the level of project management maturity in the housing sector particularly 40/60 and 20/80 housing projects in Addis Ababa through assessing the ten project management knowledge areas and based on this identified the least and highly matured knowledge areas related to the issue under studied.. To achieve this purpose, the research first provided a review of the common project maturity models upon which project management solutions model was selected for this study. Moreover,, questionnaire was distributed to 219 housing expansion projects employees participated in the implementation of these projects using simple random sampling techniques,. Apart from survey questionnaires, an interview was conducted with project managers to get the required information to enrich the study. Besides, document reviews were also conducted. Finally, the collected data are analyzed using descriptive statistics by applying SPSS. The overall project management maturity of the company is at level 2.46 approximately 2 on a relative scale of 1(lowest)to5(highest).The most mature knowledge areas are project procurement management, project risk management and Human resource knowledge areas approximately leveled at maturity level and the least matured knowledge areas are the project time management and project cost management approximately leveled at maturity level .The findings suggests that basic project processes exist in the company but are not considered an organizational standard and management supports the implementation of projects management but understanding and involvement is not consistent / applied to all projects. |
