A importância da gestão de projetos para um bom desempenho das ações governamentais: com um estudo aplicado na Prefeitura de Osasco

Abstract

This study shows the importance that project management techniques and tools have for public management in connection with law creation, since laws reflect government actions that, upon approval, will create new situations that differ from previously existing ones. New laws are equivalent to newly designed devices employed to stimulate changes within the public machinery and to provide benefits to society. The study’s objective was to analyze the importance of project management tools in municipal government actions and decision making, in connection with law bills designed at the mayor’s office. This induction-method study showed the importance of using project management, and was mostly based on an analysis we conducted on the law creation process at the Osasco city hall. The data for that analysis were collected by analyzing internal documents at the Osasco administration department, after obtaining due authorization. Our study was also based on analysis of the content of descriptions obtained for planned government actions that required approval by law. This paper was structured around a theoretical basis arising from our research of texts on the subject from other authors. Subsequently to the data analysis, the paper goes on to show that project management techniques and tools can contribute toward efficiency of law development, by providing a wider view of steps to be taken, and thus allow an improved planning of public management actions.