Volume 4 - Volume 4
THE CONTRIBUTION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
In a complex environment, characterized by an increasing demand for personalized and customized
products, reducing the cycle time for the launch of new products becomes an important point for
getting a greater return on investment in development projects. Thus, our objective in this article
was to investigate the contribution of project management methodologies for decrease time to
development products. For this study, and in view of the proposed objective, qualitative
methodology literature was used. The analyzes carried out in order to understand what type of
project management process can best contribute for development products, brought mixed results
towards the use of prescriptive and adaptive methods. This fact prompted the reflection that the
contribution made by the practices of project management for development products occurs with
verification scenario and the degree of innovation of product project that is being developed and the use of adaptive methodologies for innovative projects in complex environments and
methodologies for projects prescriptive design routine in simple environments.
Paper Details
PaperID: p 808-822
Author's Name: Paulo Fernando Pinto Barcellos and Priscila Nesello
Volume: Volume 4
Issues: Volume 4
Keywords: Management, project, product.
Year: 2014
Month: June
Pages: 808-822