1Edward Domina Attafuah | 2David Ackah (PhD)
1University Hospital, University of Development Studies (UDS Tamale, Ghana)
2UNEM International Programme, Universadad Empresarial de Costa Rica
Email: edwardattafuah12@gmail.com | drackah@ipmp.edu.gh
Abstract
The focus of this treatise is on the relationship that exists between Project Management Practices carried out by Project Management Organizations on project performance. Two organizations tangled in the management of projects were carefully chosen as project management organizations for the treatise. These are ‘GET Fund’ group and ‘Common Fund’ body. Three criteria for evaluating project performance were recognized for their extensive application in project management description and general understanding amongst practitioners. These comprise: time, cost and quality criteria. Structured interviews were carried out within the selected organizations for identification of practices undertaken in the management of evaluating projects. Other momentous project management practices were also captured in relevant literature.
Structured questionnaire was established to gather information for evaluating of the project performance and determination of project management practices significantly relating to project performance. Performance indices were adopted for the evaluation of the time, cost and quality performance. To test for significant differences between the performances of the categories of projects, each belonging to one organization, the pair-wise analysis, using independent t-tests, was used. Multiple regression Analysis has been used to determine the relationship between the significant project management practices on evaluating performance.
Substantially, significant difference between the time performances of the categories of projects was observed. There was significant cost performance difference of the categories of projects across all the organizations whilst there was no significant difference in quality performance across all the three pairs of categories of projects analyzed. It was recognized that as significant difference exists between the performances of a given pair of categories of projects from organization to organization the corresponding significant project management practices also vary from organization to organization and vice versa.
Keywords: Project Management Practices, Evaluating Project Performance, Project Management Practices Emerging Economy, Project Management for Development, District Assembly Common Fund