A adoção de práticas de gerenciamento de projetos em organizações pertencentes à pecuária sul-mato-grossense

Abstract

Project management practices have been increasingly adopted, and their contribution to the performance of projects are recognized and demonstrated in recent literature. On the other hand, studies show that projects have flaws, both in terms of lack of alignment with business strategies and lack of compliance with what was planned. Observing the Brazilian economic reality, it is opportune to evaluate the theme of project management in the sector in which the country stands out as a global player: agribusiness. The problem of this study is to evaluate, qualitatively, how the adoption of project management practices occurs - suggested by the Project Management Institute - in projects of organizations belonging to the cattle ranching in Mato Grosso do Sul. Therefore, in the Literature Review, the concepts of projects and project management, life cycle, knowledge areas and process groups, success and maturity in projects, and, finally, project management in the agribusiness were presented. Data were obtained through face-to-face interviews with rural producers and following a semi-structured script, and the sample was by convenience and linked to the saturation criterion to determine the number of respondents. The results indicate that, even though isolated project management practices have been used in some projects, these are planned and executed empirically and without planning, resulting in the absence of parameters to evaluate their effective performance, and in the suggestion of initial project management maturity level.