3288 USING INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT TO EXPLORE THE FACTORS CAUSING DELAY OF MODIFICATION PROJECT IN A SOUTH AFRICAN POWER STATION Sikholiwe Ntoyanto Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa, E-mail: ntoyantos@eskom.co.za Nien-Tsu Tuan Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa, E-mail: nien-tsu.tuan@uct.ac.za
Project delays are common problems in construction industry. The modification and shutdown (outage) projects in South African power stations are faced with project delays as well. The project delays have detrimental effects to the supply of electricity and impacts the advancement of the South African economy. This paper explores the major determinants that influence untimely delivery of modification projects in a South African power station. Through the use of Interactive Management (IM) methodology, 21 principal project delay factors were identified and used for structuring a delay model. The model generated through the IM session is a digraph, on the basis of relevant stakeholders’ consensus, showing the ‘aggravate’ relationship between the identified delay factors. The digraph reveals that the main determinant of modification project delays in a South African power station is the ’proficiency of a project manager’. Proficiency of a project manager relates to the ability of a project manager to accomplish the required project tasks based on his or her skills, competency, and experience within the project management field.
The model developed through Interactive Management session demonstrated that proficiency of a project manager in that South African power station is the driver of other project delay factors, such as the factors in a large circular loop lying in the second stage of the model, including ‘poor leadership’, ’poor communication’, ‘poor planning’, ’insufficient risk management’, ‘scope creep’ and so forth. The model serves as a starting point to revisit the power station’s strategy in dealing with the project delays. Keywords: Interactive Management, Systemic Thinking, Project Delay
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