An analysis of project management software requirements to support the new product development process

Author(s)

Leonardo Daniel Vieira Ribeiro

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2006-09-20

Examining board members

Henrique Rozenfeld; Daniel Capaldo Amaral; Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes

• Advisor: Henrique Rozenfeld

Abstract

Everyday, the globalization forces even more the joining of companies through business agreements and partnerships, making of the collaborative product development of new products a basic requirement to the competitiveness or even survival. The project management, essential to product development, is a complex area of knowledge and, therefore difficult to structuralize all the elements needed to ensure the success of its practical application inside different industries. One of the most important factors necessary to a good project management is managing the communication and the knowledge created along the project. Within this context, this work aims the develop a list of requirements for a project management software focused at the product development process. These requirements must include concepts of geographically distributed collaboration and knowledge management. The main sources for this work are the general literature; work results from past projects inside the engineering integration group of the Nucleus of Advanced Manufacturing of the University of São Paulo and requirements from analysis of open-source project management softwares, adding up to the scientific development of the research group and best practices found in the industry in general. This research is qualitative and descriptive. It makes use of the research methods of participant-observer, bibliographical research and documental research. (AU)