Standardized Models for Project Management Processes to Product Design

Abstract

Excellence in design is an important differentiating factor between competing products; establishing a key pillar for companies face up with safety the challenges ahead in global markets. The implementation of process management, in turn, has emerged as one of the tools for improving management more effective and its application to design product powering growth vectors, such as innovation and productivity. A project level, the management model of the design process for products manufactured according to BS 7000-2: 2008 can be compared with the models predictive of project management, mainly international PMBOK ® guide and the model developed in Europe, PRINCE2. Potential similarities to be established in comparison shall take into account an integrated vision focus on all levels according to processes as initiation, planning, implementation, monitoring and controlling, and closing.