Earned value management practices in the District Assemblies (MMDA’S)
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2021-06-15
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The success of every construction project depends heavily on the effectiveness and prudent
application of project management tools. The purpose of project management is to foresee or
predict as many of the dangers and problems as possible and to plan, organize and control
activities so that projects are completed successfully in spite of all the risks. This substantiate
the need for an effective project management tool. The main purpose of this study was to
assess the application of Earned Value Management practices among Municipal and District
Assemblies in Ghana with the focus on Hohoe Municipal Assembly. The study specifically,
looked at Earned Value Management Systems awareness levels, other project management
tools used aside EVM and finally, the challenges and problems hindering the practice of
EVM. In other to achieve these objectives the researcher adopted survey design approach for
the study, using quantitative methods and research questionnaire as data collection
instrument. A total of sixty-seven respondents were sampled across different areas of
expertise using non-probability sampling technique. Using the Relative Important Index (RII)
analysis findings from the study revealed that, majority of respondents were unaware of the
Earned Value Management practices as a project management tool, representing eighty-five point one percent of the sampled population, this was attributed to lack of training and formal
education on the application of EVMS. On the usage of other project management tools by
the Municipal Assembly‟s aside EVM, findings revealed that, a significant number of
respondents use Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) ranked first (1st) using Relative
Important Index (RII) of ninety-eight point two percent, the second most familiar project
management tool was the Line of Balance (LOB) with an (RII) of eighty-nine point five
percent etc. finally, findings revealed that, the challenges facing the application process of
EVM were lack of expertise and experience of staff, political interference, level of
professionalism, corruption among others. Based on these findings the researcher
recommends efforts should be made to abandoned political infiltration into project
management at MMDAS to help them implement effective project management tools that
will ensure value for money on every government project commissioned.
Description
A thesis submitted to the Department of Construction Technology and
Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award degree of
Master of Science in Construction Management.
Keywords
Project Management, Construction Project, Earned Value Management