Contribuição dos métodos ágeis no gerenciamento da construção civil

Abstract

Civil construction is a sector with projects of great financial, environmental and social impact. However, even though it is an important productive sector, the brazilian construction industry is characterized by limited efficiency and low innovation capacity. Research on civil construction project management contributes to making it more effective, but the mastery of the best market practices is not the reality of most companies in the sector, sometimes because they are not viable in the context of projects and characteristics of these companies. In this work, the application of agile approaches in the civil construction environment was studied in order to identify management alternatives that can contribute to the sector, facilitating the overcoming of the difficulties. A bibliometric research of works and publications in the academy was carried out, which, organized by their relevance, allowed to identify the concepts, the uses attributed and the contribution of this knowledge to management in civil construction. It was found that agile approaches have the potential to contribute to the management of construction projects, especially in the pre-design and design phase. Due to their flexibility, agile methods can be applied in different ways, depending on the stage of the product life cycle, the desired objective and even in a complementary way to other approaches already existing in the sector, such as BIM and Lean Construction.