Assessment study on the Challenges of Project Management Knowledge Areas

This study was conducted to identify the most challenging PMKAs in the external funded agricultural research projects of EIAR. The qualitative research approach with descriptive research designs was implemented. Both primary and secondary data collection methods were used. Respondents were purposively identified. Based on this technique 124 respondents were identified. Respondents were working in 30 projects. Interviewees were also organized for 30 key informants from each project. The collected data were analysed through SPSS. The Cronbach’s Alpha test result of the questionnaire is 0.85. The result shows that, challenges related with organizational environment, project risk management, project time management, project cost management, and project quality management are the most challenging knowledge areas whereas the other PMKAs are moderately challenging.