Evaluation of Agility in Innovative Projects in the Manufacturing Industry

Studies confirm that companies in sectors that produce physical products when developing innovative projects, seek agility by adopting methods and practices from agile project management (APM) theory. The APM, designed by the software industry, recognized the power to bring rapid results to projects performed in environments with high volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, typical of innovative challenge tasks. In this context, studies carried out in the region with a diversified manufacturing park would benefit from understanding how to make its creative projects agile. Besides, this region is a representative sample to confirm the assumption that the combination of administrative aspects and practices can lead to greater agility. The research aims to evaluate the agile practices, the organizational factors, and their contribution to agility performance in the innovation projects of the manufacturing industry. Developed several methods to evaluate the agility in project management, so performed a systematic bibliometrics review was performed. The results analysis involved the use of the quantitative approach. Expect to have results highlighting the favorable aspects and barriers to implementing agility in this sector, besides reinforcing the assumption of the interdependence mentioned above between practices, context, and project performance.