Monitorització de projectes no determinats utilitzant Scrum i la Concept-Knowledge Theory
- Autores: Joan Camps Lorente
- Directores de la Tesis: Xavier Roca Ramón (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2015
- Idioma: catalán
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Gonzalo Ramos Schneider (presid.), Guillermo Reyes Pozo (secret.), Lídia Rincón Villarreal (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
Planning and monitoring of projects are fundamental activities for its management. These tasks provide the required information to have a full picture of a given situation. They are an instrument that enables the control of any process and that will make possible its evaluation. However, it has been showed that, in some areas, monitoring by standards can be a complex activity. This study proposes a method for monitoring projects. It can be implemented in those cases that, either by its size or by its own dynamics, do not display the way they use to carry out their projects. To succeed in this approach, it needs to be simple, user-friendly and based on people skills. Moreover, standards are particularly useful for the management of those projects whose final configuration is known, called as determined projects. These kinds of projects differ from others that do not have a specific known end, for example any design process. They are called nondeterministic projects. Thus, this research corresponds to the development of a method for monitoring nondeterministic projects. First of all, the state of knowledge concerning both project management and design theories has been reviewed. The relationship of the first term with the aim of the research is evident, but the relationship with the second term requires a comment: the correct monitoring of a nondeterministic project requires showing the itinerary that follows the reasoning of the designer or group of designers. For example, what are the technical solutions adopted and which the discarded? Or, which knowledge has been used? And, is there any new knowledge acquired? All of these questions should be known. The way to map these processes is not evident. This issue should be deal from the design theory. As a result of the review of the state of knowledge, it is suggested that the development of a method for the monitoring of nondeterministic projects could be articulated from the simultaneous use of Scrum, as a framework of agile project development, and the Concept- Knowledge theory, as a design theory. At these two elements, a third one, related to a system file hosting is added. The hybridization of the two main elements is the idea that allows structuring the developed method. The set of hypothesis to be proved corresponds to the possibility of using the method, that is, the validation of the hypothesis will be satisfactory if the method can be used and it is useful. For the validation, a research focused on a qualitative approach has been designed. It consists in two strategies: a participant observation and case studies. In the first one, the method has been used by eight teams of students of advanced engineering courses to carry out its project in an academic environment. In the second one, three cases of different architectural design projects have been studied. The first case is a research project for the design of a particular ephemeral structure. The second case corresponds to the process used by a professional studio of architecture to design a house in exceptional plot conditions. Finally, the third case, also relative to a professional environment, describes the study of the process followed in the development of a new type of curtain wall. Approaches used in all case studies are based on sustainability criteria. The results of the investigations conducted are discussed in order to determine the validation of the hypothesis. At the same time, the conditions that must be fulfilling for the successful implementation of the method are proposed.
