Recommendation to Improve Project Management Practices of the Case Company

The objective of the study is to recommend improvements for project management practices of the case company. The case company has increased interest and focus on project management in its plant engineering projects. Since adequate project management practices implementation contribute directly in project success. the project management guidelines are established in the company system but yet it needs further detailing and more attention to be paid during project implementations. The research approach chosen for this study is design research, the study consists of four stages. The first stage carries out current state analysis where company organizational assets has been exploited, company stakeholders has been accessed to offer detailed description of company current project delivery and project management practices. Further it helped identifying strengths and weaknesses for current implementations. The second stage utilized academic and professional literature to come up with idea’s to be utilized developing improvements to highlighted weakness found in first stage and form conceptual framework. Third stage was conducted utilizing the finding from the current state analysis and conceptual framework and by engaging company key stakeholders to co-create a draft for initial recommendations for improving current project management practices. the fourth and final stage was collecting feedbacks from initial recommendations and validating them with company key stakeholders to condensate final recommendations for improving project management practices. Several strengths and weaknesses were identified through the study. The study shortlisted most relevant weaknesses related to integrated change control implementations and the quality issues associated with it. in order to improve project management practices special attention was given to integrated change control, by redefining the framework of change control, improved processes implementations on organizational and personal levels. Implement iterative improvement on integrated change control processes to ultimately optimize the processes and integrate it with company ERP system. The outcome of the study, final recommendations provide a set of recommendations that resembles an action plan to improve project management practices through elevating and optimizing integrated change control processes. adequate implementation of enhanced integrated change control positively contributes with enhanced project governance and optimized financial performance for the projects, which will jointly benefit company and customers alike