The collaborative product development is essential for companies to increase the innovation degree of their products. Companies must follow the critical success factors (CSF) in order to achieve the expected results. There is a set of papers that identified critical success factors (CSF) for collaborative projects; however, there is no paper verifying those factors in Brazil, especially in the Agricultural Machinery Industry. This article aims to verify whether the CSFs identified in the literature could be used in this context. A bibliographical review was carried out to identify a CSF list. After that, a single case study was developed, using the project as unit of analysis. Two successful and collaborative projects were evaluated. The results described new CSFs and reinforced others, as factors related to relationship equality and universality.
Collaborative projects; Agricultural machinery; Critical success factors
