CIPMN develops framework to tackle project failures

The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN) has developed a new project management framework aimed at tackling persistent cases of abandoned, delayed and poorly executed projects in the country. CIPMN said the framework is tailored specifically for Nigeria’s complex development environment as part of sweeping reforms aimed at improving the success rate of […]

The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN) has developed a new project management framework aimed at tackling persistent cases of abandoned, delayed and poorly executed projects in the country.

CIPMN said the framework is tailored specifically for Nigeria’s complex development environment as part of sweeping reforms aimed at improving the success rate of government and private sector projects and businesses across the country.

Speaking at the institute’s 2025 mid-year training programme and induction ceremony in Abuja, the Registrar-General of CIPMN, Henry Mbadiwe, said the new framework would be launched before the end of the year.

The new methodology, code-named Delivering Unified Controlled Agile Project, combines global best practices with indigenous experiences to create a hybrid model designed to reduce project failure, delay, and abandonment.

 “The institute has now developed a project management methodology code-named Delivering Unified Controlled Agile Project (DUCAP), which, once we clean it up, we will launch.

“That methodology takes learnings from other frameworks, such as PRINCE2, APM, and GILE practices in other countries, and then integrates our local and peculiar situation in Nigeria. It uses all those learnings to develop a methodology that would suit your project delivery in Kano or Lagos, and other locations.

 

 “It is a project management framework using a methodology for delivering projects in Nigeria. It takes learning from all established frameworks and putting them in the Nigerian context overlay suited for Nigeria, and not just something copied abroad. Using foreign frameworks in Nigeria without adapting to our peculiarities won’t work. That’s why we are developing DUCAP, to make project delivery easier and more effective. We are likely to deliver on this before the end of the year,” he said.

 

Mbadiwe added that the institute will soon begin enforcement to ensure that only qualified professionals manage, teach, or deliver projects in the country.

 

“We are putting together regulatory frameworks. You will begin to see enforcement movements because we must ensure that those delivering projects obey the law.

 

The three-day event, themed “Project Management Practices: A Guarantee of Sustained Growth in This Digital Age”, will culminate in the formal induction of 604 members: 289 individuals as new inductees, 60 as fellows, 245 as chartered members, alongside graduate, associate, and corporate members.