Guía para la Gestión de Proyectos de Infraestructura, en sus Etapas de Inicio, Planificación y Diseño para la Oficina Ejecutora del Programa de Inversiones de la Universidad de Costa Rica.

Abstract

OEPI is the department of the University of Costa Rica in charge of planning, design and construction management of the projects that this Institution requires for supporting the development of all of the different fields that make part of this university. At this moment this department is involved in the development of projects with three different budget sources, this mean an increasing number of projects in design, which can reach from 25 to 40 simultaneous. This increasing work denotes the lack of a guide able to join the procedures of initiation, planning and design. Primary objective of this document is to offer a guide of project management for the initiation, planning and design processes. Specific objectives are: to review the activities that conform the initiation, design and planning processes to find areas to establish changes; to identify theory and concepts of project management that can be applied in this guide, to propose tools, practices and techniques that improve the processes, and to offer the different management plans, according to the knowledge areas, that conform this guide. Methodologies applied in this document are: descriptive studies, documentary research, field investigation and data collection. The result is a project management guide based on the PMBOK®.