A study into international infrastructure standards and their impact on Iraqi projects

• Main Authors: Alwan, Maha Abdul Razzaq, Ahmed, Mohammed Neamah, Aswed, Gafel Kareem
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Data analysis; Data collection; Infrastructure; Managers; Project management; Questionnaires; Telecommunications
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0202593

The goal of this research is to determine the suitability of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)– seventh Edition to Iraqi infrastructure projects by determining the extent to which these projects implement these standards. Because of the economic importance of the telecommunications sector and its role in the development of other industries (The Iraqi Ministry of Telecommunications projects were selected as a study case). The use of a questionnaire to collect data and information in the field is a valuable resource. The questionnaire employs a five-point Likert scale. Purposive and proportionate sampling procedures were used to choose 85 project managers and coordinators from the Iraqi Ministry of Telecommunication. For data analysis, Smart PLS3 software Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used. The findings revealed that the PMBOK Guide’s standards were applied in these project in varying proportions, with the stakeholder performance domain receiving the most attention represented by path coefficient (0.318) and the delivery performance domain receiving the least attention (0.021), while the team performance domain was not applied Which requires the necessity of guidance and training in order to take care of this field because it has an impact on the. This study recommends that Construction project managers should be familiar with the PMPOK guide and how it may be used in construction projects.