The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN) is taking measures to prevent cases of project abandonment in Nigeria.
Speaking on Monday in Abuja, the Registrar of CIPMN, Mr Henry Ifeanyi Mbadiwe, said the institute will look into the root cause of why many projects were abandoned by the government in the past but will work hard to ensure further occurrences are prevented.
He explained that sometimes it is very difficult to change what has already happened. “We might be focusing on the future and looking at what we need to do moving forward.
“When a project starts, you need a project manager to help with the planning in order to ensure that not only do you have the money, but there is proper planning for changes so that we don’t have cases of project abandonment.”.
Mbadiwe noted, “Sometimes projects can even stop for a while. As long as we know we are going to start this project in the next six months and there is proper planning, the project will be completed on time.
“So while we might not be sure of what has made different projects or what has caused the abandonment of different projects, we are going to start by looking into these projects, trying to understand why they were abandoned, and then we take the learnings from there and then begin to work out a new strategy and a dynamic approach to plan future projects going forward.
“My plan is to make sure that project management practices are elevated in Nigeria. It is a practice situation where you have a group of people who deliver change and bring about skills to deliver something that hasn’t been done before.
“So my job in general is to make sure that we have skilled sets of human capital development, but they don’t manufacture themselves,” starting with the fact that they have to be trained.
The CIPMN is currently training professionals for quality service delivery in project management in the country.
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