| Abstract: | A project's success depends on its management. The unlimited market need should be
compromised with the limited resource through an application of proper project portfolio
management technique. Throughout all the phases of PPM (formation to execution, updating
and closing) the management team takes care of the time, cost and quality constraints of a
project. This study was conducted to assess the practices and challenges of project portfolio
management on ethio telecom’s infrastructure project. A descriptive research design was
employed for the study. 45 employees working in the various sub-departments of PMO of Ethio
telecom were taken considered for the research. Mixes of both qualitative and quantitative
approaches were implemented to collect the primary data from respondents. The study
examined how PPM is practiced includingthe challenges faced at Ethio telecom. According to
the findings of the study, the case organization has a major problem of information exchange,
resource sharing, strategy linkage and balancing of different project characteristics in the
formation stage and the execution process of portfolio management i.e. communication of the
strategic direction, continues monitoring and comparison of projects in the program as well as
the performance visa vis the schedule, resource sharing of projects was also found to be
conducted poorly. Finally,looking at the findings as well as various literatures,
recommendations such as establishment of well organized PMO to handle different issue of
PPM, fixed communication platform along with practical implementation were suggested by the
student researcher. |
