The project manager’s responsibilities are to plan and control company resources efficiently and ... more The project manager’s responsibilities are to plan and control company resources efficiently and to complete the project on schedule, within the budgeted costs and specified quality towards making the project a success. However, many reports have shown the opposite results. Studies on this issue are pointing towards the poor understanding of good practice as a basic problem for the failures in project management. The objective of this paper is to identify the competency skills that a project manager should have to influence a successful project performance. Using the case study approach carried out in Medan, Indonesia, two large projects were chosen, namely RSU Pirngadi and Plaza Medan Fair. The data was collected as well as obtained from and through project reports, questionnaires and interviews with the project managers and project teams of the relevant projects. The variables were then separated into two classifications that could be defined as either success or failure. The findings of the research show that good project management practices result in a higher project performance.
Keywords: Project Management, Project Manager, Construction Industry, Performance, Medan, Indonesia
The project manager’s responsibilities are to plan and control company resources efficiently and ... more The project manager’s responsibilities are to plan and control company resources efficiently and to complete the project on schedule, within the budgeted costs and specified quality towards making the project a success. However, many reports have shown the opposite results. Studies on this issue are pointing towards the poor understanding of good practice as a basic problem for the failures in project management. The objective of this paper is to identify the competency skills that a project manager should have to influence a successful project performance. Using the case study approach carried out in Medan, Indonesia, two large projects were chosen, namely RSU Pirngadi and Plaza Medan Fair. The data was collected as well as obtained from and through project reports, questionnaires and interviews with the project managers and project teams of the relevant projects. The variables were then separated into two classifications that could be defined as either success or failure. The findings of the research show that good project management practices result in a higher project performance.
Keywords: Project Management, Project Manager, Construction Industry, Performance, Medan, Indonesia
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Keywords: Project Management, Project Manager, Construction Industry, Performance, Medan, Indonesia
Keywords: Project Management, Project Manager, Construction Industry, Performance, Medan, Indonesia