Metodologias ágeis na gestão de projetos: um estudo de caso em empresas de software de Londrina

Abstract

Software is being increasingly used and required in all spheres of society and the adaptation of companies in the field to a dynamic and changing environment is necessary to generate added value to the developed systems. For this, companies use different methodologies to make the development of their products assertive and meet customer expectations. In this way, this work aims to identify which agile characteristics the software companies in Londrina have following the principles of the Agile Manifesto, created to provide concepts and principles for the development of these products, as well as the use or not of other methods considered agile such as Scrum, XP, among others, in order to observe if there is the application of any of these methodologies and what companies understand about the subject. The research is justified by the fact that there are no similar studies in the city of Londrina in this segment. The method used was an in-depth interview with representatives of the 4 companies that agreed to participate in the research, with a pre-defined script of questions so that the interview was guided to obtain the necessary information. The results obtained varied according to the size of the company, but what could be noticed is that all the companies interviewed understood the subject, but that the applicability in everyday life is restricted to the reality of each one. Characteristics of methods such as Scrum, XP, Kanban and FDD were noticed, with emphasis on Scrum due to the greater ease of cultural adaptation of the collaborators.