Analysis of Feedback and Evaluation for the GERD Dam Project Report

This report provides a detailed feedback and evaluation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project. It assesses the project's complexity, identifying five key factors: unhelpful behavior, failure to appreciate systemicity, complex models, simplistic project management, and over-ambitious strategic management. The report also evaluates the project against five ICCPM outcomes, including stakeholder views, product vs. project success, leadership skills, institutional practices, and government/industry relations. Furthermore, it examines external varieties affecting the project, such as poor planning, water security concerns, engineering issues, and financing challenges. The report analyzes complexity types and provides an overall assessment of the GERD project, highlighting financial and technical complexities and their impact on the project's timeline. The report also comprehensively covers the factors and issues in the GERD project that have caused delays.

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Feedback and evaluation: Part 1A Individual Feedback
 In the comment column, you need to provide a brief evaluation with short
answers.
Student’s Name
Professor
Date

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 You need to provide relevantly and ad hoc feedback at the end of each point
(highlighted in red)
 Your feedback won’t affect the report grades. It instead intends to evaluate your
understanding of the report.
 Based on your comments, give a mark out of 10 for each point
ITEM Comments
Give brief comments here
Final
points
(out of
10)
Five Complexity Factors
The report has indicated that the GERD dam is a complex project
with relevant justifications
The report has shown that
GERD is a complex project
considering its construction
and various complexity
aspects, which may lead to
difficulty in completing the
project in time. The five
complex factors which have
comprehensively been detailed
in the report include;
a. unhelpful behavior-
this involves the fears
associated with the dam
ranging from climatic
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Has the report identified the FIVE complexity factors as detailed in
Ch.1?
Were these factors mapped with the GERD case?
Are there enough details about these factors?
What are the missing factors?

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changes to a reduction
in water volumes.
b. Failure of the project to
appreciate the natural
systemicity
c. highly complex models
involved in the
construction
d. simplistic project
management approach
adopted in managing
the project
e. over-ambitious
strategic management
of the project.
ICCPM Outcomes
Has the report provided FIVE of the ICCPM outcomes?
If not, how many outcomes are there?
The report has
comprehensively covered the
five ICCPM outcomes
regarding the GERD project.
The covered outcomes include:
a. Stakeholders’ view of
the project and their
expectations
b. Product success vs.
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Has the report provided a detailed discussion of the provided
outcomes?
Are they relevant and well mapped?

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project success
c. Leadership skills in
managing the project
d. Institutional practices
implemented in the
project
e. Government relations
and industrial relations
These ICCPM outcomes have
been adequately addressed in
the report.
ASHBY LAW
Has the report indicated the external varieties as per Ashby Law? As posted in the report,
external varieties are essential
in understanding the overall
progress of the GERD project.
It gives the grounds for
reactions basing on the
situation of the project.
Regarding the GERD project,
the report has covered the
following varieties, which
significantly affect the
construction of the dam.
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How relevant these varieties to the GERD dam case?

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1. Poor planning: this
points on the concerns
of various stakeholders
of the Nile River not
being convinced over
multiple issues
associated with the dam
2. Water security
concerns: This has
mainly focused on
Egypt and the water
capacity she is
receiving which is 6%
less than the average
volume
3. Engineering concern:
the size of the dam and
the amount of financing
required may render it
not productive
4. Financing: this variety
has focused on the
inability of the
Ethiopian government
to provide necessary

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finances to fund the
construction of the dam
Complexity Types
Has the report discussed the complexity types The report has adequately
discussed the complex types with
a precise indication of intensity
levels range. Politics play a
significant factor in all the real
complexities in the project.
Graphically, the report has
illustrated a total of 15
complications with their risk
scores and overall weight on the
project.
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What are the examples the report provided
GERD is a complex project that has heavily costed the government of Ethiopia financially and technically.
Over its construction since 2011, the dam has experienced several complexities that have been pointed above
and have extensively been covered in the report. The report has also fully covered on the ICCPM outcomes
of the project. Also, the report has addressed the external varieties which have significantly affected the
project as have complexity types witnessed in the project together with their overall weight on the progress of
the project. This report has addressed the most prominent factors and issues in the GERD project which has
seen completion dates extended from time to time mostly dues to the financial constraint faced by the
Ethiopion government since it decided that most of the project financing will be from internal sources.