Table Of ContentDaniel Rabasquinho Gouveia
Undergraduate in Engineering and Industrial Management Sciences
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[NomeA conm pEletso sdoa ayut oor] n Agile Project Management Practices
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[Título da Tese]
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Dissertation for the achievement of an Integrated Master’s degree in
Industrial Engineering and Management
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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em
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Adviser: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Maria Baptista Ramos Tenera, Assistant Professor,
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FCT-UNL
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Jury:
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President: Prof. Dr. Isabel Maria do Nascimento Lopes, Assistant Professor, FCT-UNL
Members: Prof. Dr. Mário José Batista Romão, Associate Professor, ISEG
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Maria Baptista Ramos Tenera, Assistant Professor, FCT-UNL
September, 2015
Daniel Rabasquinho Gouveia
Undergraduate in Engineering and Industrial Management Sciences
[Nome completo do autor]
[ Habilitações Académicas]
[Nome completo do autor]
[ Habilitações Académicas]
[NomeA conm pEletso sdoa ayut oor] n Agile Project Management Practices
[ Habilitações Académicas]
[Título da Tese]
[Nome completo do autor]
[ Habilitações Académicas]
Dissertation for the achievement of an Integrated Master’s degree in
Industrial Engineering and Management
[Nome completo do autor]
[ Habilitações Académicas]
Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em
[Nome completo do autor]
[Engenharia Informática]
Adviser: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Maria Baptista Ramos Tenera, Assistant Professor,
[ Habilitações Académicas]
FCT-UNL
[Nome completo do autor]
Jury:
[ Habilitações Académicas]
Pr esi dent: Prof. Dr. Isabel Maria do Nascimento Lopes, Assistant Professor, FCT-UNL
Members: Prof. Dr. Mário José Batista Romão, Associate Professor, ISEG
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Maria Baptista Ramos Tenera, Assistant Professor, FCT-UNL
September, 2015
An Essay on Agile Project Management Practices
Copyright © Daniel Rabasquinho Gouveia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
A Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia e a Universidade Nova de Lisboa têm o
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the guidance and availability of my coordinator in this thesis
Prof. Alexandra Tenera who took the time, even on late hours, in helping me with this
study.
I would like to thank my family, specially my mother and my father, who always
supported me on my decisions.
To Isabel, I would like to thank the support given day-by-day and for always finding
a way to cherish my day.
I would like to thank my friends, especially Samuel and Tomás, for always looking
out for me and for all the comradeship.
Finally, I would like to thanks Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) for
lengthening my horizons and for being the most welcoming second home, always
filled with great experiences and friendship.
ABSTRACT
The main goals for the current dissertation is to research on how practices and concepts from Agile
Project Management can be applied in a non-IT context and to discover which aspects should be
considered when deciding if whether an Agile approach should be implemented or not. Previous studies
reflect on the adoption for the identified context. However, the recognition of these practices and
concepts by the Project Management field of studies still remains unresolved.
The adoption of Agile Project Management emerges as a manifestation against traditional approaches,
mainly due to their inability of accepting requirements’ changes. Therefore, these practices and
concepts can be considered in order to reduce the risks concerning the increase of competition and
innovation – which does not apply to the IT sector solely.
The current study reviews the literature on Agile Project Management and its adoption across different
sectors in order to assess which practices and concepts can be applied on a non-IT context. Nine
different methods are reviewed, where two of these show a higher relevance – Scrum and Extreme
Programming. The identified practices and concepts can be separated into four different groups:
Cultural and Organizational Structures, Process, Practices, and Artefacts. A framework based on the
work by Boehm & Turner in 2004 is developed in order to support the decision of adopting agile
methods.
A survey intended for project managers was carried in order to assess the implementation of the
identified practices and concepts and to evaluate which variables have the highest importance on the
developed decision support framework. It is concluded that New Product Development is the project
type with the highest potential to implement an agile approach and that the Project Final Product’s
Innovativeness, Competitiveness, and the Project Member’s Experience and Autonomy are the most
important aspects to consider an implementation of an Agile approach.
Keywords: Agile Project Management; Project Management; Scrum; Extreme Programming
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