Estrutura de referência de gerenciamento de projetos com metodologias ágeis para instituições públicas

Abstract

With a reality of scarcity of resources, since the 1970s, public administrations began to seek more efficient forms of management. The use of project management was one of the tools adopted. However, traditional project management methodologies are costly when it comes to documentation, control and change. In this context, agile methodologies can bring efficiency to project management in the public sector. However, a lack of procedures was identified to assist its implementation in Brazilian public organizations. Thus, the elaboration of a project management reference structure, with agile methodologies, for public institutions, aims to fill this gap, which isthe general objective of the research. The specific objectives are: (i) categorize the dimensions related to challenges in the adoption of agile methods by public organizations; (ii) identify the main challenges, inherent to the dimensions, in the use of agile methods for project management in public organizations and (iii) highlight the recommended practices of agile methodologies for project management in public organizations. This is an exploratory and descriptive research, operationalized through a bibliographic research, where the bibliographic portfolio was constructed with the help of the bibliometric technique. With selected excerpts from the articles that make up the bibliographic portfolio, whose content was related to the challenges in the adoption of agile methods, it was possible to build the corpus, on which the content analysis was carried out, through the IRaMuTeQ software, identifying the Classes and representative words. The mapping of dimensions referring to the main challenges in the adoption of agile methods for project management in public organizations, derived from content analysis, more specifically, from the realization of the Descending Hierarchical Classification, resulted in two major dimensions: Governance and Transition. This, in turn, was subdivided into General and Public Sector classes. The main challenges inherent to each dimension were identified from the joint analysis of the dimensions and their most expressive words with the corpus. The bibliographic portfolio was also analyzed in order to extract the best practices to mitigate the challenges encountered. Therefore, the consolidation of a proposal for a reference structure based on agile methodologies for project management in public institutions, emerges from the systematization of the identified challenges and respective recommended practices, for each of the categorized dimensions.