Abstract
The history has shown us over time that each way of managing an activity can lead to a different result, which has given rise to multiple approaches to the project management discipline through diverse models and methodologies, each one coming with a number of advantages and disadvantages. The software engineering branch is a climate where projects have a lot of room for flexibility, change and adaptability. However, this scientific paper aims to highlight the characteristics of these techniques, provided by experts in the field through the scientific literature, along with an original point of view regarding their future improvement. Project management is a complex, diverse and encompassing discipline, so each new model or methodology has come to supplement the shortcomings of the previous one. Starting from these, there are a number of factors that must be taken into account when determining how a project should be managed, such as: industry, size, resources, etc., and this paper presents the areas of applicability for each methodology in part, as well as data in which several approaches intertwine resulting in hybrid project management approaches. In the end, some conclusions and predictions about the methodologies in the field of software development industry are presented.