The impact of information technology on project management performance. A case study of Vision City Project phase 1

Abstract

This study entitled “The Impact of Information Technology on Project Management Performance”. Information technology is defined as ‘the use of electronic machines and programs for the processing, storage, transfer and presentation of information. Project management (PM) is a complex effort, designed to comply a client’s needs, which is uncommon, limited by time, budget, resources, and scope. Development projects are most of the time acknowledged as successful when they are concluded on time, within budget, and in line with specifications and to stakeholders’ contentment. However, currently, many government projects in Rwanda exceed the original cost; get cancelled prior to completion, while others fail on terms of the delivered functionality. This study was guided by the objectives such as: to assess the effectiveness of information technology tools during project management of Vision City Project Phase 1, to measure the performance of the Vision City Project Phase 1 and to examine the relationship between information technology on project management performance of Vision City Project Phase 1. Descriptive research is devoted to the gathering of information about prevailing conditions or situations for the purpose of description and interpretation. The design involves primary research methods for the collection of primary data. The data was then entered into a computer program called Statistical Package for Social Sciences (version 21) for analysis and interpretation. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data received from the respondents. This was involved descriptive tools such as percentages and frequency distributions. Ordinal logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between the dependent variables and the set of independent variables at 5% level of confidence. The study results showed that that majority of the respondents strongly agreed that information technology is considered advantageous to project managers because of the alleged contribution regarding timelier decision making and project success with the average mean is 3.925 which is strong and average standard deviation of 0.3175 that showed the homogeneous of responses. The average mean on performance of the Vision City Project Phase 1 is 4.2 which is strong and average of standard deviation is 0.42 that showed the homogeneous of responses. Last but not least, an ordered logit model was estimated to examine whether data storage mediums, data storage softwares, digital data and recording mediums predict project management performance. Together, the predictors accounted for a significant amount of variance in the outcome, likelihood ratio (4) = 33.8, p < .05. and this made a researcher to confirm H1: by saying that there is a significant relationship between information technology and project management performance of Vision City Project Phase 1. And reject HO: by saying that there is no significant relationship between information technology and project management performance of Vision City Project Phase 1.