Projetão — Projeto de Sistemas de Informação (Information Systems Project) (IF985)

Projeto de Sistemas de Informação (Information Systems Project, IF985), known as Projetão SI, applies to the Information Systems program the methodology created at CIn in 2002 by Geber Ramalho, Cristiano Araújo, Luciano Meira, and André Neves: large groups, a problem found by the students out in the field, a solution actually built and presented at the end of the semester, at the Demoday, to a panel from the ecosystem — Porto Digital, Jump, CESAR, Softex, SEBRAE. Giordano Cabral has taught the course since 2016.1, generally in the evening shift. Since 2017 he has been part of the teaching staff of the Projetão at UFPE as a whole and serves on the board of the Instituto de Educação para Inovação, which replicates the method in other programs and institutions.

Twenty-one cohorts between 2016.1 and 2026.2, with no offering only in 2023.2 and 2024.1, the period of the postdoctoral fellowship. In 2021.1 the evening cohort brought together Information Systems, Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine, with Fernando Sales; in 2020.1 and 2020.2 the SI cohort followed the joint Projetão Tech course.

The semester runs on weekly quests, ten in the current version: themes; opportunities; analysis of similar solutions; chosen opportunity and team setup; unique value proposition; MVP and proof of concept; revenue model; prototyping and usability; project plan; preparation for the Demoday. Each team opens the class by presenting the result of its own. The grade combines what the instructors see — completeness, evidence-based validation, innovation potential, participation —, the 360 peer evaluation, and thirteen maturity milestones measured from 0 to 5. The core readings are Running Lean, A Startup Enxuta, A Estratégia do Oceano Azul, and IDEO's Design Kit. In 2026 the material was rewritten for use with AI assistants: the Guia Projetão 2026 and the site projetao-ufpe.vercel.app, which packages the quests as skills for AI assistants, each one declaring the mode of use it allows. The sources yielded 32 named products or teams from the SI cohort, from P2Coin (2016.1) to Porto Segura and Tático (2026.1), and 112 projects presented at the joint Demodays.

2026.2 — In progress: the course as a skill

The semester began on August 10, 2026, with class at one end of the week and fieldwork and mentoring at the other.

2026.1 — Solo female tourism and boutique law practice; Demoday at CESAR

Class held from March to July 2026.

• Porto Segura — "Travel solo, never alone": a support and convenience network for women aged 30 to 60 traveling alone, with a human connection at their destination. The team started with the theme "Women's solo travel" (Quest 1), mapped the solo traveler's ecosystem (Quest 2), chose the opportunity "a hub for convenience and women's autonomy" (Quest 4), formulated the value proposition as SentinelaCIn (Quest 5), planned the MVP launch as SafeHer (Quest 9), and arrived at Demoday as Porto Segura, with usability tests involving three women users and an MVP report on June 26, 2026. Team (names in the submissions): Maria Clara Gomes, Dayane Lima, and colleagues.
• Tático — "the legal layer that connects your intelligence to your firm": client-centered, rather than case-centered, operational management for boutique law firms, with to-be BPMN workflows and intelligent deadline management (Quest 9). Team: Dayane Lima.
• Solo female tourism (Quest 1) — field research on an ecotourism trail and research using the Ministry of Tourism's Guia para Mulheres que Viajam Sozinhas. Team: Maria Clara Gomes, Dayane Lima.
• Barbershop in Vila Rica, Jaboatão (Quest 1) — identifying a theme through a neighborhood barbershop. Team: Mikaell Miguel, Pablo Henrique.
• The Solo Female Traveler's Ecosystem (Quest 2) — a field research report on the silver economy of solo female travelers.
• Analysis of similar offerings in solo female tourism (Quest 3)
• Selected opportunity — a hub for women's convenience and autonomy (Quest 4)
• SentinelaCIn — the value proposition (Quest 5)
• Porto Segura — prototyping and usability (Quest 8)
• SafeHer — MVP flight plan (Quest 9)
• Intelligent legal deadline management (Quest 9, Tático)
• Tático workflows (interim report)

2025.2 — Street markets, supermarkets, older adults, and medical histories; Demoday at Cesar School

Class held from September to December 2025.

• Medicompreende — integrating patients' medical histories for safer care (the Quest 2 video submitted on Drive is named video_MediCompreende.mp4; the topic appears in the pitches "Oportunidades de inovação na integração do histórico médico"). Team (names listed in the pitches): Eduardo Matos, Ricardo Morato, João Sobral, Weldon Pereira.
• Feira Conectada — centralized information (opening hours, prices, products) for street markets in Paulista (Paratibe, Jardim Paulista, Maranguape). Team (Quest 2): Lucas Luis de Souza, Pedro Novaes, Maiara Lira, Victor Neves.
• Recife city buses (Quest 1) — public transportation and SDG target 11.2. Team: Lucas Figueiredo, Luís Moreira, Vitor Mendonça.
• Difficulties faced by supermarket shoppers (Quest 1) — finding products and comparing prices when shopping for urgent needs. Team: Gustavo Isidio, Rafael Mourato, Victor Amarante.
• Lar Batista para Anciãos (Quest 1) — quality of life for older adults at an NGO with 36 residents. Team: Beatriz Helena, Celeste Pereira, Maria Antônia.
• Data digitization in port operations (Quest 1) — manual collection of critical information at Brazilian ports. Team: Daniel Dias, Mateus Guerra, Lucas Lucena.
• Parking in Recife (Quest 1) — Zona Azul with no visibility into parking space availability. Team: Antonio Robério, Mateus Ataide, Eric Barreto.
• Wholesale-retail stores (Quest 2) — common problems faced by customers of wholesale-retail stores.
• Tools for charitable schools and low-budget courses (Quest 1) — no cover image.
• Demoday:

2025.1 — Health, public squares, and local commerce; Demoday at Cesar School

Class held from May to August 2025, with a page at projetao.cin.ufpe.br and eight weekly quests.

• Plataforma de Fotos — event photo sales using facial and number recognition to help participants find themselves in the images (Quest 5 "Innovation strategy" and the revenue model from Quest 7). Team (Quest 7): Rafaela Fernandes Leão and colleagues.
• Praça do Sebo (Quests 1 and 2) — mapping pain points, makeshift solutions, and opportunities among vendors and visitors at the outdoor secondhand book market in downtown Recife.
• Mental health (Quest 2) — interviews with mental health service users and professionals.
• Monitoring people with hypertension and/or diabetes (Quest 1) — UBS Progresso. Team: José Ronaldo, Luiz Henrique, Vitória Beatriz.
• Jardim Botânico (Quest 1) — Team: Arlen Ferreira, Gustavo Diego, Hyan Lucas.
• Public sports spaces: inclusion and health promotion (Quest 1) — Team: Matheus Augusto, Rafaela Leão, Tiago Chacon.
• Praça Luiz Gonzaga (Quest 1) — Team: Angel Willyan, Carlos Kaynan, Humberto Campos.
• Hospital Agamenon Magalhães (Quest 1) — Team: Ayrton Guimarães, Letícia Albuquerque, João Nolasco.
• Medical testing clinics — digitalization and accessibility (Quest 1) — Team: Maria Bezerra, Ícaro Amazonas, Isaque Teixeira.
• Coworking (Quest 1) — Team: Antonio Lima, Cauê Marinho.
• Challenges of urban tree planting in Recife (Quest 1) — Team: Danilo Lapa, Marcos Vinicius, Vinicius Nobre.
• Mercado da Encruzilhada (Quest 1)
• Informal vendors on Av. Conde da Boa Vista (Quest 1) — 324 street vendors along 1.6 km and a project to make the area more people-friendly with 50 kiosks; no cover image.

2024.2 — Return from postdoctoral research; TopDriver; Demoday at Banco do Brasil

The class following my return from postdoctoral research, from November 2024 to April 2025.

• TopDriver — a gamified platform for distributors to track driver performance, with weights for each indicator and rankings; presented at Demoday on April 7, 2025. The SI class folder on Drive contains this team's 360-degree evaluation, placing it in this class. Link: https://portal.cin.ufpe.br/2025/04/04/estudantes-de-disciplina-da-ufpe-apresentam-projetos-e-solucoes-revolucionarios-no-demoday-projetao-2024-2/
• Places to buy and exchange books — Praça do Sebo (Quest 1)
• Feira Nova de Nova Descoberta (Quest 1) — 137 market vendors in a facility opened in 2016. Team: Allyson Ryan, Felipe Gusmão, Melk Victor.
• Santa Luzia Metro Station (Quest 1) — Team: Erick Daniel, Jorge Freitas, Lucas Gabriel.
• Mix Mateus Caxangá and Mercadinho do Chico (Quest 1) — Team: Douglas Araújo, Gabriel Alves, Hallan Ângelo.
• Recycling in the city of Recife (Quest 1) — Team: Hítalo Nascimento, Ingrid Freire, Katharian Abrahel.
• Public transport problems in the Recife Metropolitan Region (Quest 1) — Team: Caroline Almeida, Otávio Augusto, Renata Santana.
• Upinha da Várzea (Quest 1) — a healthcare facility and SDG 3. Team: Marcos Antonio, Maria Eduarda de Lima.

2023.2 and 2024.1 — No class (postdoctoral research)

No offering, due to Giordano Cabral's leave for his postdoctoral fellowship.

• Demoday 2023.2: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6N7pmH0ULU

2023.1 — Demoday on the 16th floor of Porto Digital

Class confirmed in the teaching allocation, starting in May 2023; all that remains from the class stream is the WhatsApp group, and the Drive folder is empty.

• Demoday:

2022.2 — Evening class on Tuesdays and Thursdays; ten teams; Demoday at Cesar School

Class held from December 2022 to May 2023, supported by the website projetao.cin.ufpe.br.

• Setting and people — Viaduto da Reitoria (Quest 1) — Team: Allan Rodrigues, Maria Eduarda Feledi.
• Temporary communities around events — rationale posted on the stream: production company, artist, event, audience, and a platform that creates entertainment and engagement activities.
• Quest 1 on video — Deborah Espíndola and Kevin Beltrão (video and presentation on Google Drive, links on the stream).
• Demoday: Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/-ZefRHf6lUc

2022.1 — Evening class; Demoday at Apolo 235

Class held from June to October 2022, in person, with occasional online sessions.

• Demoday: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieCq4afS7nE

2021.2 — Remote and hybrid evening Projetão; security, digital marketing, and health

Class held from February to May 2022, with the academic calendar delayed by the pandemic: classes via Meet, streamed and recorded on the Projetão channel, six quests and a return to hybrid teaching on March 21, 2022.

• Segurança (Security) — a web application connecting shopkeepers with guards and security personnel, with professional ratings and incident alerts shared among shops in downtown Recife; business model documented using a Business Model Canvas. Team: Bruno Martins, Gabriel Melo, Giovani Albuquerque, Daniel Carvalho, Jean Grijp, Maria Estela Souza, Marcson Santos, Sidney Alex.
• Marketing Digital (Digital Marketing) — campaign management across multiple advertising platforms (Facebook, Google, TikTok) for small and medium-sized businesses. Team: Anderson Laurentino, Lucas Félix, Carlos Frey, Márcio Wendell, Felipe Carvalho, Maurício Felipe, Gabriel Vanderlei, Pablo Timóteo, José Helton, Pedro da Matta, João Matheus, Samuel Ferreira.
• Provisão Saúde / Apoio Inteligente ao Atendimento Domiciliar — optimization of care provided by Recife's SAD and NASF teams, based on observation at the UBS da Barra da Onça. Team: Aloísio Soares, Haziel Farias, Isabela Ribeiro, Karen Gabrielly, Mayara Souza.
• Fruto de Favela (Quests 1 and 2) — observation of an NGO providing vocational training. Team: Gabriel Vanderlei, Márcio Wendell, Pablo Timoteo, Carlos Henrique Frey.
• Airports and airlines (Quest 1) — Team: Anderson Laurentino, José Helton, João Matheus.
• Educação Acessível (Quest 2) — Team: Jean Grijp, Marcson Santos, Sidney Arruda.
• Public safety in downtown Recife (Quest 2) — Team: Giovani Albuquerque, Gabriel Gomes, Bruno Martins Santos.
• Remote office — Teams and Slack (Quest 1) — Team: Felipe de Carvalho Vasconcelos, Pedro da Matta Ribeiro Moura.
• Quest 1 (team of Lucas Felix, Maria Isabela, and Samuel Ferreira)
• Demoday: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OW_QFMWaf4

2021.1 — Projetão SI+EB+Med, evening class, with Fernando Sales

Remote class held from September to December 2021, with students from Information Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine; Fernando Sales posted the class links.

• Classes: Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQPGrXJqCAskfr94HUjPm5QtWAVGnFjV1
• Demoday: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtsaNPN83cQ

2020.2 — Remote, integrated with Projetão Tech

Class held from May to September 2021, with classes via Zoom, evening mentoring sessions, the website projetao.com.br and a YouTube channel.

• Demoday: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv2CaQaxNzs

2020.1 — Interrupted by the pandemic and resumed in 2021 alongside Projetão Tech

The class began in March 2020, with students working in groups of three; on March 16, UFPE suspended classes, and the proposal to continue via Meet could not be implemented.

• Demoday: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbTu7ZauKjc

2019.2 — Projetão Noturno; two teams; DoisV; Demoday at Porto Digital

Class running from August to December 2019, using projetao.ranoya.com as course material and with Demoday scheduled two months in advance for December 9, 2019, at Porto Digital.

• DoisV — a class project listed on the historical Projetão website as incubated/accelerated at Porto Digital in 2019.2. Team: Pollyana Andrade, Marcos Dias, Andrew Santos, Darline Cabral. Link: https://projetao.cin.ufpe.br/to/?dun=Giordano
• Technology for commerce at events — a team whose name was not recorded in the sources.

2019.1 — Five themes; FitnessGo and Alohomora; Demoday at Apolo 235

Class running from February to July 2019, using Guilherme Ranoya's project toolkit as course material and with five groups per theme: interaction in public spaces; shopping without leaving home; public transport, balancing comfort, safety, and time; finding books; motivation to exercise.

• FitnessGo — a system for motivating good habits and exercise, from the "exercise motivation" group, which was pointed to the app Fabulous as a reference. The team was called on June 28 to arrange the Demoday.
• Alohomora — a team in the class (name recorded in the 360-degree evaluation dated July 10, 2019); theme not recorded.
• Demoday:

2018.2 — Restaurants, pets, and FilaZERO

Class running from August to December 2018, with the method's ten quests running from August to October.

• FilaZERO — "scan with the app, buy your meal, and skip the queue": ordering and payment through the app to reduce restaurant queues; ARM and a value curve comparing it with iFood, street vendors, and the traditional model (quest 8; the folder does not identify the team; the topic matches that of the restaurant management group formed on September 3 by Augusto Gondim, Eduardo Santos, Guilherme Menge, Mateus Maciel, Marcos Holanda, and Vinícius Giles).
• Pet Services — services for pet shops and pet owners; quest 5 card game with scenarios, personas, and the competitor BuscaPet.
• CanSay — class team (name listed in the 360-degree assessment); topic not recorded.
• Scenario survey (Quest 1) — Marco Zero (Augusto Gondim, Eduardo Santos, Vinicius Giles); candidates' debate at CCSA (Gustavo Lopes, Mariana Lima, Thomaz Maciel); Paço Alfândega (Guilherme Menge, Mateus Ponciano); Conferência Atitude in Vitória de Santo Antão (Eric Araújo, Pedro Vinícius, Saulo André); Parque Dona Lindu (Johnny Mayron, Samir Ferreira, Vanessa Vieira).
• One team's narrative (quest 6)

2018.1 — Waste, food, and retailers; AppConomy

Class running from March to July 2018, following the ten-quest sequence, with Blue Ocean in the fourth quest and three broad themes noted in March: waste; meals for people without a set lunch or dinner time; integration and communication among merchants.

• AppConomy — class team (name listed in the 360-degree assessment); topic not recorded.
• Shared inventory among small retailers — based on observations of small businesses on Av. Conde da Boa Vista, the team developed an app concept in which neighboring shopkeepers notify one another of inventory needs (Quest 6 user story). Team: Arthur Justino, David Francisco, Nailson Nascimento.
• Dona Josa persona (Quest 2) — the routine of a worker on a schedule of 12 hours on and 60 hours off. Team: Paulo Vaz, Victor Burgardt, Paulo Sérgio.
• Field study (Quest 1) — slide deck "Projetão — Sistemas de Informação — estudo de campo".

2017.2 — Untagged, Insight, U³, Brasil Educador; Demo Day at Jump and CIn Innovation Expo

Class running from August to December 2017, meeting once a week, with the ten quests between August and October and a status report from each team starting in the opening week.

• Untagged — "Words matter": a tool that searches, filters, and ranks user comments about products and services to increase customer engagement; the team sent the pitch to the professor on December 12, 2017 — "Untagged team, Projetão 2017.2," signed by Rodrigo Cunha, business manager —, presented at the CIn Innovation Expo, and in March 2018 was selected for CIn's Entrepreneurial Residency Program in Digital Business, SandPIT, alongside Entraí, Inovaula, and Porquin.
• Insight — a platform for university entrance exam preparation courses ("test your knowledge, find out where to improve, study and progress"), with the website insightstartup.com.br and a high-fidelity prototype in quest 10; a scenario card game, personas (Lúcia, a teacher) and competitors (TV Escola, SuperProf). Team: João Paulo Lins, Lerisson Freitas, Matheus Raz.
• U³ (uaocubo.com) — a team organized into hipster, hacker, hustler roles, with weekly status reports starting on August 14, 2017. Team: Luiz Oliveira, Túlio Siqueira, and colleagues.
• Brasil Educador — an assessment of Brazilian education ("19th-century schools, 20th-century teachers, 21st-century students") and entrepreneurship (76% want to start a business, 9% feel prepared).
• medizi — a team that observed Alto da Sé, in Olinda, and a tourist persona. Team: Arthur Moreira, Caio Tenório, Érico Medeiros, Márcio de Aquino.
• Other observations from Quest 1 — Supermercado Bom Dia and families with nowhere to leave their children (Gutemberg Sampaio, Jean Pierre); Colégio São Luís (Lucas Assad, Raphael Leitinho); Caixa Cultural Recife (Alisson Nunes, Djailson de Assis, Ricardo Malafaia, Roberto Oliveira); Aeroporto dos Guararapes and Praia de Boa Viagem (João Paulo Lins, Lerisson Freitas, Matheus Raz).

2017.1 — MeuTribunal and Nird²; Demo Day at Apolo 235

Class running from March to July 2017.

• MeuTribunal — a solution for law firms, based on the pain points observed in Quest 2: registering cases in PJe, synchronizing with the firm's internal system, and overly generic case law searches; the team represented the class at Demo Day on July 10, 2017, at Porto Digital. Team: Augusto Lima, Carlos Melo, Pedro Neto, and colleagues.
• Nird² — a team in the class (name listed in the 360-degree assessment); the observation of "idle time in supermarkets and gyms" (queues, taking turns on equipment, searching for a parking space) was made by Débora Moura, Diego Reynaux, Ivan Felipe, Nikollas Filgueiras, and Rafael Jordão.
• Emotional regulation in educational settings (Quest 2) — tests, Enem, and civil service entrance exams as sources of anxiety; a persona of a student in the final year of high school. Team: Edson Neri, Gerson Ramos, Jhonattas Ferreira, Matheus Marconi.

2016.2 — Evening class; Atyos, Escambo, Vendorama, and MyPlace

Evening class running from August to December 2016, with lessons and quests published as PDFs — the opening lesson was called "Innovation through Transdisciplinarity" — and the website projetaoufpe.wixsite.com.

• Atyos, Escambo, Vendorama, and MyPlace — the class's four teams, named on the board on December 23, 2016 and in the 360 evaluations; the final pitches were not kept on the Drive.

2016.1 — Urban mobility; P2Coin at Jump's Demoday

Giordano Cabral's first cohort in the course, from March to July 2016.

• P2Coin (Peer to Coin) — "the solution for buying and selling foreign currency in cash": a peer-to-peer marketplace to eliminate exchange-rate spreads and intermediaries; validated with customers in June, presented at the Demoday on July 11, 2016, and submitted to CESAR Labs the following week. Team: Dênio Batista, Diego Marcolino, Filipe Gutemberg, Juliandson Estanislau (initial group with Marcos Vinícius, Marcílio Neto, and Bruno Ferys).
• HelpGoal and Conteúdo Certo — the class's other teams (names in the 360-degree evaluations); topics not preserved.
• Student attendance tracking app — project discussed in the stream (suggestion for QR code check-in, April 26, 2016); team not named.