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Lean project management: application of lean principles to project management

Authors: Almeida, André Bernardo Lopes de;

Lean project management: application of lean principles to project management

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Nos desafiantes ambientes de negócio atuais, a vantagem competitiva é essencial para as organizações, havendo uma constante necessidade de encontrar soluções que permitam às organizações obter vantagem competitiva. A Gestão de Projetos e o pensamento Lean são duas destas soluções, reconhecidas nas vertentes de gestão e de ambiente de produção. Esta dissertação propõe um modelo para alavancar o desempenho dos projetos através de práticas de Gestão de Projetos e princípios Lean. Para desenvolver o modelo, são entrevistados PMOs ("Project Management Officers") de empresas portuguesas reconhecidas. Numa primeira fase, as entrevistas visam identificar as principais dificuldades na gestão de projetos. Como resultado destas entrevistas, os princípios lean são aplicados à gestão de projetos para mitigar as dificuldades identificadas e desenvolver um modelo lean de gestão de projetos. As entrevistas identificaram as áreas de conhecimento de Recursos Humanos, Âmbito e Contratação, como as mais criticas em termos de dificuldades. Na segunda fase, a opinião de peritos é utilizada para validar o modelo em quatro pilares: nível de compreensão, principais dificuldades, aplicação prática e orientação ao resultado final. Todos os entrevistados concordaram que o modelo considera as principais dificuldades de gestão de projetos e tem orientação ao resultado final, o sucesso dos projetos. Contudo, alguns entrevistados consideram necessário haver conhecimentos prévios de princípios lean e sugerem o desenvolvimento de um dicionário para o modelo, para melhorar a sua compreensão e aplicação prática. Este estudo demonstra que o uso das ferramentas lean tradicionais adaptadas ao contexto de projetos pode auxiliar na melhoria continua de processos e práticas, conferindo clareza, transparência e reduzindo constrangimentos. O modelo lean de gestão de projetos - "Lean Project Management Framework" - fornece uma abordagem viável para superar as deficiências das práticas tradicionais de gestão de projetos.

In today’s challenging business environments, competitive advantage is of utmost importance for organizations and there is a raising demand for profitable solutions that allow organizations to gain competitive advantage. Two of such profitable solutions are Project Management (PM) and Lean Thinking, recognized methodologies for management and production processes. This dissertation proposes a framework to accelerate the performance of projects through PM practices and lean principles. To develop the framework, Project Management Officers (PMOs) of renowned Portuguese companies are interviewed. In the first Stage, interviews are conducted aiming to identify key pain points in PM. Resulting from the first set of interviews, lean principles are applied to PM to remedy the identified pain points and develop a Lean Project Management Framework. The interviews identify the most critical knowledge areas in terms of pain points as Human Resources, Scope, and Procurement Management. In the second stage, experts’ feedback is used to validate the developed framework on four pillars: degree of understanding, alignment towards the major pain points, practical applicability, and orientation towards the final result. All the respondents conceded that the newly developed framework considered the major pain points and was oriented towards the final result, projects success. Nevertheless, some respondents considered that up-front lean knowledge is needed and suggested the development of a framework dictionary to improve understanding and practical applicability. The findings show that the use of traditional lean tools adapted to the PM context can aid in the continuous improvement of processes and practices by conferring role clarity, transparency, and reducing bottlenecks. The Lean Project Management Framework provides a viable approach to overcome the shortcomings of traditional PM practices.

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Project success, Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão, Portugal, Y Miscellaneous categories, Project management, M Business administration and business economics - Marketing - Accounting - Personnel economics, M19, Y40, Project, Gestão de empresas, Lean thinking, :Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão [Domínio/Área Científica], Gestão de projetos

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