Project Team Competence Research Articles

Assessment of Project Baseline Effect on Performance of Rwanda Education Funded Projects: A Case of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda

A project's baseline is the research conducted at the commencement of the project to identify the current state of the project via data collecting, providing a benchmark against which subsequent modifications may be evaluated. The general objective of the study was the assessment of project baselines on performance of Rwanda education funded projects. A case of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda and the specific objectives were to evaluate the influence of stakeholder’s participation as an effective baseline-survey on performance of education funded project of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda, to examine the effect of project team competency as an effective baseline-survey on performance of education funded projects of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda and to determine the effect of project costs as an effective baseline-survey on performance of education funded project of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda. The study guided by the following theories: Stakeholder’s participation theory, project team competency theory, Project Costs Effectiveness theory and Expected Quality Standard theory. Project coordinators, PAEE project officers, District Education Officers in the Nyarugenge District, and project beneficiaries in the Nyarugenge District made up the target population of this descriptive research that used both quantitative and qualitative methods. In all there were 2689 from which a sample size of 348 was picked, the sample size calculated by Yamane formula. Researchers utilized a basic random sample strategy to choose participants from the whole population of interest, and a stratified sampling strategy to divide those participants into manageable subsets. Questionnaires, interviews, and records were used to compile the information needed for the study. Frequency tables, percentages, means, and standard deviations were generated using SPSS version 21 when data processing is complete. The predictors (Project cost effectiveness, Project team competency, and Stakeholders' engagement) and the Performance of education sponsored project of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda are well correlated (R value of 0.807). There is a 0.221 coefficient for stakeholders' engagement (t = 3.938, p = 0.000), a 0.398 coefficient for project team competency (t = 8.381, p = 0.000), and a 0.254 coefficient for project cost effectiveness (t = 4.286, p = 0.000). This means that the performance of the Pan African Education Empowerment Project -funded education initiative in Rwanda improves in direct correlation with the level of each of these factors. These coefficients have important statistical significance and major roles in contributing to the success of the education financed project of Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda, since their p-values are considerably below the normal significance threshold of 0.05. Pan African Education Empowerment Project in Rwanda is recommended to strengthen stakeholder engagement, providing comprehensive training, investing in project team competency through professional development, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and implementing strong monitoring mechanisms to optimize financial resources and enhance the success of education funded projects.

Identifying Critical Success Factors (CSF) in ERP Implementation Using AHP

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations often encounter multifaceted challenges, leading to failures. Success relies on technical competence, management support, and user engagement. Unique organizational processes significantly influence outcomes. Failures can disrupt operations, highlighting the need to identify critical success factors (CSFs) for effective ERP implementation. This study employed analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology to analyze CSFs. Data collection involved surveys administered to a social insurance company's ERP project team in Indonesia. This study revealed 15 success factors, categorized into organization, process, and technology dimensions. Organization emerged as the most crucial, followed by technology and process. Among these, five CSFs stood out: project team competence, vendor and consultant quality, ERP fit, top management support, and hardware and software selection.

Success Factors in Project Management in the Financial Sector in Ghana: Screening for Construct Items

This study screens for individual manifest variables that make up the critical success factors in project management in the financial services sector in Ghana. A descriptive quantitative research technique was employed. A sample of 75 project team members were selected from commercial banks, insurance companies, and non-bank financial institutions in Ghana. Data was analyzed using the Principal Component Analysis.  Apart from two manifest variables of culture; thus, beliefs, and general attitudes, all other variables significantly accounted for project success in the financial services sector in Ghana. Among the 9 factors retrieved, project team competence contributes the highest level of variance on project success, with about 21.3% of the variance contributed. Management commitment contributes the second highest variance on project success, with about 16.2% of variance. Culture contributes the least amount of variance to project success, thus 5.6% of the variance contributed. Project management organizations in the financial services sector would need to give priority to considering project team competency and management commitment, with consideration also given to other factors and individual manifest variables.

Peningkatan Kompetensi Profesional Guru SD Melalui Project Team pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19

Teacher skills an absolute requirement in conducting a quality distance education process, especially during the pandemic. Mastery of digital technology is one of strength resource that supports the teacher's pedagogic strategy.This study aims to improve the teachers' professionalism competence of which is focused on technological competence dimensions through a project team. This type of research uses a Classroom Action Research design through four stages of Kemmis-Taggart. The research subjects were 20 teachers of SD Negeri Pandanwangi 1 Malang City. Data collection techniques consisted of observation and questionnaires to determine the implementation of the project team and teachers professional competence of. The results showed an increase in the two aspects studied, including: 1) project team implementation in cycle 1 was 55% and cycle 2 was 86%. Meanwhile 2) the teachers professional competence in cycle 1 was 64% increased to 90% in cycle 2

Team Project Process Oriented on Acquiring Competence in an Open Distance Learning System

The paper presents the approach to competences in the context of the problem of the distance learning process. The place of the problem of determining competence in ODL is analyzed. Competence in ODL conditions is becoming one of the basic instruments for assessing the quality of the learning process. Therefore, it is important to develop the theoretical basis for modeling competences and adapt this model to practical needs. An approach combining methods of game theory and fuzzy sets would allow determining the degree of competence possessed and acquired by all participants in the teaching process. In the paper the new educational model developed on acquiring the project team competence is represented. The issue of selecting partners to work on the project profile is being considered. The quality of the project team is determined by the degree of coverage of the domain of the project profile by the competences of its participants..

Moderating role of government Acts, laws and policies between team competency and skills and construction risk management among KSA contractors

Contractors have given importance to risks in the construction process as it causes time and cost overrun, delays, and total desertion in activities and events present in the construction project. The uncertainty in the completion time, cost, and quality during construction relate to construction risks. Project goals are achieved by classifying, investigating, and replying to risks associated with construction projects. To achieve project objectives, team competency and skills are required, which are viewed as attitude, aptitude, versatility, and knowledge. Based on organisation control theory, current research (quantitative in nature) discusses the influence of team competency and skills on construction risk management with the moderation role of government Acts, laws, and policies among 303 large-size contractors working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using PLS-SEM technique. PLS-SEM is a composite-based approach that provides high efficiency parameter estimation with increased statistical power for analyzing complex models. Results depict that government Acts, laws and policies and team competency and skills positively influence construction risk management. In addition, moderation of government Acts, laws, and policies has positive relation among team competency and skills and construction risk management. Organisational management can reduce risk occurrence within a project by building conditions for enhancing team competency and skills.

CONCEPTUAL PROCEDURE FOR ESTIMATING THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT BASED ON FLEXIBLE SCRUM METHODOLOGIES IN THE FIELD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

The research and substantiation of the conceptual procedure of evaluation of efficiency of IT projects which are realized on the basis of application of flexible methodology of Scrum is offered. This procedure will increase the efficiency of the IT project, as well as reduce its implementation time. The substantiation and choice of the criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of the IT project, which takes into account the human factor, is presented. Evaluation is based on human resources research, namely the characteristics of project team members. Conceptually, the procedure for evaluating the effectiveness of an IT project is a complex multi-stage iterative process that requires consideration of the team implementation of IT project processes. The transparency of Scrum's general terms and standards of flexible methodology provides the possibility of the expected result. Therefore, continuous evaluation of performance at each stage of Scrum will increase productivity and help to identify deviations at an early stage, when they can be quickly eliminated or corrected. Based on this, we can identify the following main stages of evaluating the effectiveness of IT projects implemented in the flexible methodology of Scrum. An integrated indicator of project team competence was obtained, which provides opportunities to reconcile the company's IT goals and opportunities to reduce requirements, as well as the decision to continue research by expanding existing options or synthesis of new options with appropriate variation of indicators, weights, composition of elements. Conclusions are made about the possibility of applying the research in the development of an intelligent system for evaluating the effectiveness of the IT project based on determining the level of competence of project team members, which will reduce project implementation time and increase IT project efficiency.

Influence of Project Management Practices on The Implementation of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ Projects: A Case of World-Wide Fund for Nature- Kenya, Kwale County

Purpose: Non-Governmental Organizations are faced with project implementation challenges specifically 70% of environmental projects fail to meet their estimated timeline, budget and objectives. These factors have led researchers to look for possible solutions to pilot smooth execution of projects. The study’s’ drive was to institute the effect of Project Management Practices on Implementation of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ projects: A Case of World-Wide Fund for Nature- Kenya-Kenya, Kwale County. The study measured Stakeholders’ Engagement, Project Design, Project Team competence and Monitoring and Evaluation to establish their influence the execution of environmental projects of Non-Governmental Organizations.
 Methodology: Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The target population was 3,486 drawn and a sample of 90 respondents was arrived using purposive sampling. Data collection was carried out using questionnaires and analyzed using Statistical Package to develop descriptive statistics and draw inferences.
 Results: The findings clearly showed that all the factors were present in environmental NGOs projects since they had high average means of 4.45, 4.22, 4.37 and 4.5 for the independent variable while the dependent variable Y had a mean of 4.35. Hypothesis was tested after each alternative as per the objective of the researcher using the Chi-Square test and it was determined that all the factors have significant influence on successful implementation of environmental donor-funded projects since they had a significance P value of less than 0.05. The findings further showed that all the four factors; Stakeholders’ Engagement, Project Design, Project Team competence and Monitoring and Evaluation have a positive influence on implementation of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ projects. The study established that Stakeholders’ Engagement, had the highest influence on successful implementation of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ projects with a significant positive change of 77% if a unit of it is increased, followed by Project Team competence with 72%, Monitoring and Evaluation had an influence of 63% and lastly Project Planning process, had a 47% influence on sustainable implementation of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ projects
 Unique contribution to theory, policy and practice: The study recommended improved stakeholder involvement and project team competence and improving the monitoring and evaluation function for better performance of environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ projects.

ЕРОЗІЯ КОМПЕТЕНЦІЙ ІННОВАЦІЙНИХ ПРОЄКТІВ ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ ІКТ

У статті розглянуто структуру та функції механізмів розвитку та ерозії компетенцій в інноваційних проєктах упровадження інформаційно-коммунікаційних технологій. Визначено фактори розвитку та ерозії компетенцій та визначено модель оцінки компетентності та компетенцій щодо успішного впровадження інформаційно-коммунікаційних технологій на прикладі підготовки магістрів з управління проєктами та програмами. Запропоновано нову парадигму побудови моделі розвитку компетентності команди проєкту щодо створення та впровадження ІКТ, яка базується на балансі факторів розвитку компетенцій інноваційного проєкту та їх ерозії в процесі впровадження. Визначено три концепції еволюції компетенцій. Перша концепція визначається конвергентною схожістю компетенцій систем управління. Друга пов’язана з процесом формування нових компетенцій через наближення характеристик систем знань унаслідок взаємного руху одна до одної. Третя концепція забезпечується за рахунок визначення ступеня та міри подібності систем у стані «як є» з метою оцінки потрібних компетенцій для успішного управління інноваційними проєктами. Досліджено фактори розвитку та ерозії компетенцій в управлінні інноваційними проєктами впровадження ІКТ, що дозволяє адекватно реагувати на зміну профілю компетенцій інноваційних проєктів. За цих умов нова парадигма моделювання дозволяє проєктному менеджеру формувати ефективні програми набуття певних компетенцій членами команди та іншими зацікавленими сторонами. Запропонована модель факторів розвитку та ерозії системи компетенцій перевірена на прикладах, які підтвердили її адекватність та результативність. Наведені результати моделювання ерозії компетенцій у впровадженні проєкту розвитку системи дистанційного навчання за програмою «ЄвроМПМ». Водночас «зблоковані тижні» (Blok Week), які проводяться в м. Дортмунд, Німеччина. та в м. Києві на кафедрі управління проєктами Київського національного університету будівництва і архітектури в спільних групах міжнародних команд студентів, довели адекватність запропонованої моделі формування лідерства тих, що навчаються, з одночасною ерозією старих компетенцій.

Proactive Planning of Project Team Members’ Competences

Abstract Among the many factors that cause project delays or cancellations are disruptions, that is, unforeseen events occurring during the implementation of a project, which postpone or interrupt the performance of project activities. Examples of disruptions include employee absenteeism, addition of new activities, and others. One way to deal with this type of events is to predict potential disruptions and prepare redundant resources to be used should a disruption occur (proactive approach). The focus of the present paper are human resources, in particular redundant project team competence frameworks, which allow to continue work on a project in the event of a disruption. Previous studies on planning competence frameworks regard insensitivity (robustness) to one type of disruption, caused by employee absenteeism (an absence of one, two, or three employees). The goal of this article is to present a proactive procedure that allows to seek competence frameworks robust to two types of disruptions: absence of one employee and addition of new activities not included in the project plan. Examples are provided to illustrate how the proposed approach can be used in practice.

INFLUENCE OF STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT ON THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS AT KENYA RAILWAYS CORPORATION IN KENYA

Purpose: The purpose of this study was be to examine the influence of stakeholders’ involvement on successful implementation of projects in Kenya with reference to Kenya Railways Corporation.Methodology: This research used descriptive research design. The population of the study was the project officers, project managers/team, contractors, consultant’s engineers and architects, financial managers and auditors. This research adopted primary and secondary data.Primary data was gathered through use of questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS Version 21).Results: According to the findings, taking all factors (project team competency, stakeholders’ involvement, top management support and project monitoring and evaluation) constant at zero, the overall successful implementation of projects in Kenya was 5.774. The data findings also show that a unit increase in project monitoring and evaluation lead to a 0.362increase successful implementation of projects in Kenya; a unit increase project team competency lead to a 0.379; a unit increase in top management support, lead to a 0.355; a unit increase in stakeholders’ involvement lead to a 0.398 increase in successful implementation of projects in Kenya respectively. This means that the most significant variable was stakeholders’ involvement followed by project team competency; top management support and project monitoring and evaluation respectively.Recommendations: The study recommends that stakeholder’s involvement should be improved in project implementation. The study also recommends that a competent project leader be given the responsibility to oversee the implementation of projects in Kenya Railways Corporation to ensure projects are effectively implemented.

Mathematical Model and Method of Analysis of the Personal and Group Competence to Complete the Project Task

Abstract The ability to create the project team and manage their knowledge is commonly recognized as one the most important quality of the knowledge and innovative organization. The management of knowledge and skills, as well as the management of project competencies has turned out to be essential factors influencing performance of project process. In the paper, the authors present the method and tools for competence modelling for project knowledge management. Basing on this and also using a fuzzy competence model the cost estimation model in the form of a group competences expansion algorithm is proposed. The model focuses on the cost of project team competence expansion caused by the project development process.

A Conceptual Benefits Realization Model for Minimization of Transaction Costs in Building Energy Efficiency (BEE) Affordable Housing Delivery

Energy efficiency is fundamental to enhancing homes affordability. There are several unique challenges to affordable housing that owner-developers need to address in order for energy efficiency to make significant economic sense. Issues such as Transaction Costs (TCs) plays a significant role in achieving building energy efficiency (BEE) for affordable housing delivery. It is evident that split incentives, information asymmetry, institutional transition, opportunistic behavior, and ill-informed users incur different levels of TCs and affect stakeholder’s willingness to take part in BEE for affordable housing. A better understanding of the nature and structure of TCs is indispensable to enhance the market-drive and investment for BEE affordable housing. Uncertainty, specific investment, frequency, and bounded rationality seen as the key dimensions of TCs. The research focuses on how to minimize TCs involve in BEE affordable housing delivery. It was found in the literature that, the level of TCs for building energy efficiency estimated at 20.5% of total project costs. A conceptual competency-driven benefits realization model is proposed for minimizing TCs taking into consideration the peculiarities of the current housing projects delivery. This research aims to establish the significance of leveraging on BEE project team-competency and commitment organized within a strategic Benefits Realization Management framework to optimize client‘s benefits regarding minimizing TCs. The focus is on the aspect of a developer’s competencies and their project team commitment concerning minimizing TCs that structured within a Benefits Realization Management (BRM) practice. This model is proposed as a pro-active enabler tool to achieve Value for Money in BEE affordable housing projects. This paper is part of a series of publications.

DETERMINANTS OF SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON PERFORMANCE OF ROADS PROJECTS AT KENYA NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY

Purpose: The study aims at investigating the determinants of successful project management practices on performance of roads projects at Kenya National Highways Authority. This study was limited to four variables, which include project monitoring, management support, Project team, and Project funding.Methodology: The study employed a descriptive research design. The target population included the top project management team of KeNHA, Monitoring Officers of KeNHA, Project Engineers (PEs), financial officers and auditors, Consultants and Contractors in the entire structure of KeNHA totaling to 174. The study employed stratified random sampling technique to acquire a sample size of 87. The study collected both quantitative and qualitative data through the use of a organized survey of questionnaire. Data was presented in the form of frequency distribution tables, graphs and pie charts that facilitates description and explanation of the study findings. Results: The study findings revealed that project monitoring, management support, Project team competency and Project funding influence performance of roads projects at KeNHA. The results of findings indicates that a unit increase in project monitoring, management support Project team competency and Project funding leads to 0.873, 0.581, 0.713 and 0.289 increase in performance of roads projects at KeNHA respectively. The study concluded that Project Funds greatly influence road Project Completion. Recommendations: The study recommends that management should provide the necessary provision to the practical and operating workers in the development of road project operations for real and practical success of objectives. Highly qualified and experienced management support with a relevant experience and technical skills should be hired to implement road projects. This will enable the Kenya government get value for their money, achieve on-time projects completion and save huge costs.

Critical Success Factors for Integrated Library System Implementation in Academic Libraries: A Qualitative Study

Integrated library system (ILS) supports the entire business operations of an academic library from acquiring and processing library resources to making them available to user communities and preserving them for future use. As libraries’ needs evolve, there is a pressing demand for libraries to migrate from one generation of ILS to the next. This complex migration process is often the single largest investment in both budget and personnel involvement, but its success is by no means guaranteed. We draw upon enterprise resource planning (ERP) and critical success factors (CSFs) literature to identify the most salient CSFs for ILS migration success through a qualitative study with four cases. We identified that top management involvement, vendor support, user involvement, selection process, project team competence, project management and tracking, interdepartmental communication, data analysis and conversion, user education and training, and user emotion management are the CSFs that determine a migration project success. 
 Keywords: Integrated library systems, information systems, library automation, critical success factors, and academic libraries.

The impact of legitimacy-based motives on IS adoption success: An institutional theory perspective

Firms frequently adopt new information systems (IS). To better understand IS adoption, research has been focused on motives for an IS adoption. In this study, three legitimacy-based motives (coercive, mimetic, and normative pressure) are examined for their impact on two success determinants (i.e., project management approach and team competence) and the subsequent impact of the success determinants on IS adoption success. In a quantitative study of Australian firms, we found that coercive pressure and normative pressure influence the project management approach, whereas mimetic pressure influences team competence. Both the project management approach and team competence in turn influence IS adoption success.

Enterprise resource planning: identifying relationships among critical success factors

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish that there are causal relationships among critical success factors (CSFs) associated with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) project. The authors prove that: H1 – Vendor (VN) is positively related to Enterprise System Selection Process (ES). H1a – Enterprise System Selection process (ES) mediates the relationship between vendor (VN) and Success (SS). H2 – Project Management (PM) is positively related to Implementation Strategy (IS). H2a – Implementation Strategy (IS) mediates the relationship between Project Management (PM) and Success (SS). H3 – Support of Top Management (TM) is positively related to Project Team Competence (PT). H3a – Project Team Competence (PT) mediates the relationship between Support of Top Management (TM) and Success (SS). Design/methodology/approach – To test the proposed hypotheses, the authors conducted a survey using a questionnaire. The research questionnaire was floated to 450 respondents; the authors received 168 responses. The authors had to discard 62 responses as their organization had greater than 250 employee and did not qualify to be an Indian SME. The authors were left with 106 responses. The respondents were managers (5.6 percent), consultants (39.6 percent), engineers (50 percent) and the remaining (4.8 percent) did not specify their job. The authors then do regression analysis and path analysis including all other required analysis. Findings – The authors found that all hypotheses are supported. The management may use these findings to understand relationships among CSFs and use this knowledge to mitigate and manage CSFs. Originality/value – There are no systematic studies to study relationships among CSFs. The work establishes relationships among CSFs through data collected from organizations that have implemented ERP.

Critical Success Factors for Low Cost Housing Building Maintenance Organization

Building services are the elements within a building which supports the fundamental operation of a building. Efficient performance of building services able to facilitate and avoid an unnecessary aggravations to the end users. Thus, the role of building services maintenance (BSM) organization is vital during the building operation phase in order to be responsible for overall performance of the building and its services. However, in recent years the maintenance performance provided by BSM organization is lack on many aspects. In Malaysia, the performance provided by BSM organization especially in low cost flats are considered to be poor. Hence, this paper focuses on identifing the BSM problems, the cause and consequently identify critical success factors (CSFs) to be applied by the BSM organization to overcome those problems. Reviews on literatures, questionnaire survey and interview were conducted to collect the valuable data for the study. The data obtained was analyzed using frequency, mean, standard deviation and content analysis. The findings indicatethat the common BSM problems occur in low cost flats are refuse disposal, rain water disposal and fire fighting system. While, lack of expertise, long duration taken and limited numbers of staffs are among the factors identified as the causes of those problems. 10 CSF namely clear goals and objectives, workforce development and training, effetive monitoring and feedback, project team competence, dedicated resources, management planning, taking account past experience, good interdepartmental communication, education on new technologies and clients expectations are identified to solve the challanges facing by the maintenace organization which causes various BSM problems. The 10CSF identified based on the opinion given by 24 interviewees from various Local Authorities. A low cost flat managed by Kuala Lumpur City Hall located at Cheras was used as case study. This study expected to help respective parties to overcome the BSM problems in the low cost flats.

Critical Success Factors of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation in Construction: Case of Turkey

AbstractConstruction is considered as one of the highly fragmented, inefficient, and low-performing industries. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been used to overcome such problems. However, due to a number of technical and organizational barriers, ERP implementation is very challenging. The major objective of the research reported in this paper is to explore the critical success factors (CSFs) of ERP implementation in the construction industry in developing countries. In this respect, based on an extensive literature review, 14 CSFs were identified and a questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the role of those CSFs on the performance of ERP implementation. The data is collected from 90 construction firms from Turkey. The statistical analysis results show that top management support and commitment, clear goals and objectives, project team competence, effectiveness of the project leader, and cooperation between team members are the most significant drivers of success. Factor analysis ...

An Empirical Investigation of Successful Enterprise Systems Stabilization and Production Support

In this paper a conceptual framework that examines the antecedents and consequences successful enterprise systems stabilization and production support and test its empirical validity. Top managements support, production strategy, education and training, vendor selection, business process reengineering, project team competence, high cost, change of management, and language barrier were applied as a antecedents and consequences to establish the theoretical foundation. An empirical test of the model is conducted. The results had shown that positive effects of all antecedents and consequences on successful enterprise systems stabilization and production support. Limitations of this paper for future studies and practice are presented at the end.