In the context of Software Engineering, where there are difficulties related to the software project management, gamification is constituted as a support tool for the improvement of its processes. In this way, through gamification strategies, we seek to apply new work approaches that help to solve part of these difficulties. For this reason, this paper presents a study of gamification strategies for improving software project management processes. The strategies have been classified according to the areas of software project management, the expected impact and the gamification elements. © 2019, Associacao Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao. All rights reserved.