Uma análise sobre gestão de projetos e fatores condicionantes de sucesso e fracasso em fábricas de software de Manaus

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify the project management process areas which prevail the critical success/failure factors. In intention to understand the dynamic relationship among aspects involved in the definition and use of a productive strategy focused to the software development, it has accomplished a bibliographical revision about the Criteria of Results Evaluation and the Critical Success/Failure Factors (CSFF) of software projects. To complete this vision, a survey about CSFF based on project manager’s point of view who works in software houses installed in Manaus has been undertaken. For this, a measurement instrument, based on the Likert’s scale, has built. It has been submitted to a validation of the assertions and reliability verification process. The result of this work has been supported by the answers picked up from 47 project managers interviews distributed on 17 software houses. The evaluation of the result of the interviews has allowed to reduce 30% of the identified CSFF list on the literature, composed by 71 factors. Based on collected data, it has been possible to stratify the CSFF in critical success factors, critical failure factors, neutral factors and bivalent factors. This study has revealed that in spite of some projects managers continue noticing the areas of management of time, cost and quality as the base of the success, the final result has showed that the process areas capable to cover most of CSFF (70%) are the communication management, the human resource management and project integration management. The conceived results through the dichotomy contrast among theory versus practical and opinion versus attitude formed the base of the new project management approach proposal which has been sustained in the called Triple Strength.