Paper: Agile Principles In Rio 2016 Venue Technology Services Projects
Abstract: Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a megaproject, which demands strong project management practices, but not only traditional ones could be applied in this sort of project, especially in IT department. Agile Project management is well known in IT environment; but its usage has been increasing significantly in other areas too. Agile project management is not restricted to Information Technology environment; it is possible to apply in many types of industries and sectors. Agile is good and recommended for time constraint, changeable environment, and complex projects, which matches completely with Olympics project scenario. Rio 2016 Information Technology department faced a challenge situation regarding time to implement IT services on venues. Thinking to simplify the management effort and to have a strong project control Technology leaders decided to put in place some SCRUM practices in order to improve the management on Venue Technology Services (VTS) area. VTS introduced in technology services implementation projects, scrum board, stand up meetings and burndown charts on its project management toolbox. Scrum board shows what is happening in the project, standup meetings worked as a single team progress communication channel, and burndown chart showed easily the project status. These three items helped VTS venue team and improved the technology communication with other functional areas. Agile practices were well succeed and proved to be really good for this kind of megaproject.
Biography: Cluster Venue Technology Manager at Rio 2016 Olympic Games Organizing Committee. Project Management Professor at Veiga de Almeida, IBMEC and Castelo Branco Universities in Brazil. Project Management Professor at Central European Management Institute. Ph.D. Student in Management at Business Research Unit (ISCTE-IUL – Lisbon). I hold a master degree in management systems and a degree in computer science. PMP, PMI-RMP, CSM and MCTS certification holder. PMBOK revision volunteer. Career developed in Information Technology field in many kinds of companies, like as: Rio2016, Vale, Petrobras, Bank Caixa Economica Federal, Sul America Insurance, Rio2007 Pan American Organizing Committee, Alterdata Software, and others. Project Management researcher and speaker. Research interest in Service Dominant Logic, IT Project Management, IT Management, Mega-projects, Mega Events Project Management, Management Practices and Strategies applied in developing countries.
