Context:

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are critic for economic development and job creation in Colombia, as a developing country. Specifically, those in the IT consulting subsector produced the highest profits in the technological area, according to the 2015 records (Ministerio de las Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones de Colombia, 2015). However, despite their growing rate and huge impact, one of the main factors that affects their problems is the selection of the project management method; actually, authors as Campanelli and Parreiras show a remarkable trend into the agile frameworks adaptation inside the companies (Silveira Campanelli & Silva Parreiras, 2015). Also, Whitney and Daniels, strengthen the idea of the potential that have the agile framework on IT projects due to its flexibility when changing situations appear with respect to predictive methods (Whitney & Daniels, 2013).

Method:

For the development of the research, it was proposed, to characterize and define the common critical aspects of the managed projects, correlate the common critical aspects identified, with agile frameworks in project management, design an agile model in project management for IT consulting SMEs in Bogotá and finally Validate the model developed.

Result:

As a result of the research carried out, the model for IT consulting SMEs in Bogotá was designed and validated, on a project developed by one of the companies in the representative sample, which met the characteristics of the study, on which a percentage was observed improvement of 77%, over time, 57% in costs and its scope was not affected, complying with what the client requires. Based on the results obtained when implementing the developed model.

Conclusions:

It is inferred that by implementing the model in the projects developed by IT consulting companies in Bogotá, they can have satisfactory results in the development of their projects, in terms of time, cost and scope.

Support:

Universidad Militar Nueva Granada