Assessment of Project Management Maturity: A Case of Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation.

Gebrehanna, Melakeselam Dimetros (2023) Assessment of Project Management Maturity: A Case of Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study was conducted with the main objective of assessing the project management maturity level of the Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation (ECWDSWC) and its sectorial divisions using the ten knowledge areas as defined by PMI (PMBOK). The study adopted the project management assessment tool designed by PMI solution. The study also implemented intensive interviews and secondary data review. The result of the study has shown that the project management maturity level of the corporation is 2.2. When breaking down the result to see the individual result, we can see the corporation performs relatively superior in areas of schedule management (2.35), cost management (2.34), quality management (2.33) and resources management (2.31). On the contrary, the corporation performs the least in areas of risk management (1.88), procurement, management (2.09), communication management (2.12), and stakeholder management (2.15). The study also analyses the maturity level of the four sectors and has found the following results. The WEDSWS scores 2.36, BUDSWC scores 2.07, TDSWC scores 2.31, and GGUDSWS 2.14. The study concluded that the corporation at the earliest maturity level of 2. By and large the overall project management maturity level is not adequate given its huge responsibility in the transformation of the country’s economic development. It is recommended that the corporation has to focus initially on developing the practice of the lowest ranked knowledge areas which are risk management, communication management, stakeholder management, and procurement management. The corporation has to develop strategies to improve its project management maturity; some of the actions to be addressed could be findings ways to improve its annual training programme and strengthening the capacity of the project, programme, and system management process division at the corporate, sector and center level. Keywords: Project Management, Ten knowledge areas of project management practice and Project Management Maturity

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