Nowadays, a significant percentage of companies have maintained their success due to the constant effort and strategic application of optimization philosophies such as lean manufacturing. However, an uncontrolled implementation can significantly affect the resources of the companies without achieving the desired result, in fact, some studies revel than more of 43 percent of unmanaged implementations of projects trend to fail. Therefore, it is important to know the execution of good practices and guides on project management applied to successful lean manufacturing developments to take them as a reference in future implementations.

This article presents a systematic literature review that analyzes 54 articles in English language during the period 2011 to 2021, in order to learn about good practices, models or project management tools that allow identifying areas of opportunity for future approaches to industrial sectors in Mexico. This work extracts scientific articles of four prestigious databases (Elsevier, SpringerLink, Emerald, Scopus) to classified and analyze according to: article type, participation by country, participation by journal, research methodology, knowledge area, implementation level and the main techniques, tools or models for the solution used.