Factors Influencing Adoption of Agile Project Management in Construction Industry
Factors Influencing Adoption of Agile Project Management in Construction Industry
ISSN: 2094-0343
2326-9865
Factors Influencing Adoption of Agile Project Management in
Construction Industry
[1] Anoop Prakash, [2]Dr. K Maddulety, [3]Dr. Vanita Bhoola
[1]DBA Student, S P Jain School of Global Management, Dubai, UAE,[2]Deputy Director, S P
Jain School of Global Management, Mumbai, India, [3]Assistant Dean, S P Jain School of
Global Management, Mumbai, India
[1][email protected],[2][email protected], [3][email protected]
I. INTRODUCTION
Globally, projects have emerged as the way for works to be executed and for resolving the problems.
According to Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management organization,
we live in the Project Economy where organizations worldwide deliver value to stakeholders through
successful completion of projects. Organizations value project management as a strategic competency for
driving changes arising from massive shifts in technology, using technologies like artificial intelligence to
meet the evolving customer expectations. Project management professionals use different tools,
techniques and approaches to meet the changing requirements of each project.
The challenge in project management is to balance conflicting constraints. The four most common
constraints being: time, cost, scope and quality called as the “Iron Triangle”. Fixing all these four project
constraints at the start of every project would work only when every aspect of the project is precisely
known in advance and problems do not occur in the course of the project. This ingrained project
management methodology of fixing everything at the start of every construction project is the cause of
many project failures. For this reason, it is imperative for the project management methodology adopted
The quality of a research framework/model is evaluated with the help of validity and reliability. Validity
measures whether this model measures accurately what it is intended to measure and it is a measure of
how well the model performs its function. Reliability is an indication of the consistency of the research
model for repeated measurements. Reliability is the indication of a measurement model‘s ability to
give similar results when applied at different times.
Cronbach’s Alpha & other Indicators are used to determine the reliability of Overall model. Cronbach’s
alpha is a lower bound estimate of the reliability of sum scores pertaining to a reflective measurement
model. Table 2 shows how ADANCO reports construct reliability. Cronbach’s Alpha & other Indicators
are greater than 0.80, which indicates very good reliability levels. A high reliability score means that the
model produces the same consistent results while using the same model for repeated tests using the same
method under the same context.
Discriminant validity means that two conceptually different constructs must also differ statistically. The
Fornell-Larcker criterion (Fornell & Larcker, 1981) postulates that a construct’s average variance
extracted should be higher than its squared correlations with all other constructs in the model. ADANCO
includes a table, called “Discriminant Validity: Fornell-Larcker Criterion”containing the reflective
constructs’ average variance extracted in its main diagonal and the squared inter-construct correlations in
the lower triangle (see Table 4). Discriminant validity is regarded as given if the highest absolute value of
each row and each column is found in the main diagonal (Dijkstra & Henseler, 2015). If, Squared
Correlations (values below the diagonal) < AVE (Diagonal Value), then No significant correlation.
Table 5: R-Squared
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