An evaluation of agile project management practices applied for innovation projects

• Grant number: 09/18267-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2010
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering - Product Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Capaldo Amaral
• Grantee: Daniel Capaldo Amaral
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Project Management authors have suggested that traditional models and approaches may be ineffective when applied to non-traditional product development processes, carried out in environments where technology, product features, and competitive requirements are innovative. As result new approaches had been published, entitled as Lean development, Iterative and Flexible product development. In common, theirs authors point a set of principles and guidelines to assist project managers. It's a new area and the researchers have to understand the implications and way to use them, in deep. Despite of the recognized importance of this theme, the concepts aren't sufficiently mature to be used and there are not objective evidences of these new practices usefulness. This project aims two original contributions. First, to develop a new instrument (a protocol) capable to assess the agility level of the project management practices. In follow, to use this tool to investigate the relationship between the level of agility and the performance, on innovation projects conducted by Sao Paulo State enterprises. The proposal is to verify this correlation on different kind of enterprises whose projects are innovative, as new product with newness content and new technology projects. The project uses a mix of research methods as: systematic bibliographical review, multi-case studies and survey. The results will be evaluated using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The deliverables will be: a) a theoretical scale to assess the agility level and a protocol to used-it in practice; b) an assessment of the relationship of agility level and performance in innovation projects at Sao Paulo State enterprises. Two contribution for the area. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BIANCHI, MICHAEL J.; CONFORTO, EDIVANDRO C.; REBENTISCH, ERIC; AMARAL, DANIEL C.; REZENDE, SOLANGE O.; PADUA, RENAN DE. Recommendation of Project Management Practices: A Contribution to Hybrid Models. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, SEP 2021. (09/18267-8, 09/16514-8)

BIANCHI, MICHAEL JORDAN; CONFORTO, EDIVANDRO CARLOS; AMARAL, DANIEL CAPALDO. Beyond the agile methods: a diagnostic tool to support the development of hybrid models. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGING PROJECTS IN BUSINESS, v. 14, n. 5, p. 1219-1244, JUL 6 2021. (09/16514-8, 09/18267-8)

CONFORTO, EDIVANDRO CARLOS; AMARAL, DANIEL CAPALDO; DA SILVA, SERGIO LUIS; DI FELIPPO, ARIANI; KAMIKAWACHI, DAYSE SIMON L.. The agility construct on project management theory. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT, v. 34, n. 4, p. 660-674, MAY 2016. (09/18267-8, 09/16514-8)

CONFORTO, EDIVANDRO C.; AMARAL, DANIEL C.. Agile project management and stage-gate model-A hybrid framework for technology-based companies. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, v. 40, p. 1-14, APR-JUN 2016. (09/18267-8, 09/16514-8)

SAMUEL EDER; EDIVANDRO CARLOS CONFORTO; DANIEL CAPALDO AMARAL; SERGIO LUIS DA SILVA. Diferenciando as abordagens tradicional e ágil de gerenciamento de projetos. Production, v. 25, n. 3, p. 482-497, 2014-04-18. (09/18267-8)