R&D project management methodology: a guide to reducing deviations in the Colombian defense sector
Abstract
R&D projects represent a source of evolution for organizations in a dynamic environment; this reality is not foreign to the Colombian defense sector. In fact, a large part of the technological developments oriented to the military and social environment of the country are concentrated there. Faced with a reality of non-uniform management methods used by the forces of the sector, the work offers as a research result, through an exploratory-descriptive methodological perspective, the design of a unique and homogeneous methodology for managing research and development projects specific to the sector, with full capabilities to manage said projects from their conception to their closure in any of the forces. The implementation of the methodology in a pilot phase allowed to improve the standard deviations presented by the area's projects in research groups attached to the defense sector, generating a 50% reduction in the time for the evaluation processes and 25% for the life cycle of the managed projects. In addition, budget performance was improved thanks to the processes of scope definition and management for execution phases.
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