This paper presents a study of Ship Design. We use the Design Structure Matrix (DSM)
to this purpose. We map the interactions among the main activities accepted by the literature related to the Project Management, to the Concurrent Engineering, and to the Ship Design, and with DSM establish a sequence of realization of them. It resulted in a single way to visualize the Ship Design and the main tasks involved in it. We show that this representation helps the Project Manager to take strategic decisions about Communicational and Organizational Planning and Program Management Tasks.