SOFT SYSTEMS AND AGILE METHODOLOGIES IN THE SUCCESSFUL DEFINITION OF ACTIVITIES FOR DESIGN ACADEMIC PROJECTS IN TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY ABSTRACT Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022. All rights reserved.Soft systems methodologies are an excellent method for defining activities in traditional project management, such as story design and tasks in agile methodologies. Through a survey applied to former students of industrial engineering, who are working in the industry or on their own business, it is inferred that the main cause of projects is that not finishing in time and exceeding the budget, is an incomplete definition of the project activities. Wilson's Maltese Cross, Checkland's soft systems, as well as other methodologies, allow to define the problem and understand clearly who the project stakeholders are, as well as the definition of the project team, with which the detailed definition of all activities increases the probability of finishing on time. The present work shows the research to reduce the project time and increase the success probability of project management through a dynamic methodology that allows successful management of both, traditional and agile projects. In the Tec21 educational model, students must solve challenges in a period of 5 weeks, which is the central part of the mentioned model. It has been observed that emphasising managing their projects with a systemic perspective, has reduced preparation times as well as stress, resulting in an increase in the stability of the students as well as the quality of their projects.

publication date

  • January 1, 2022