Effects of Risk Management Practice on the Success of IT Project

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to explore risk management practices influencing the success of IT projects. Data were collected from 200 project managers, IT managers, and IT analysts in the IT firms through questionnaires and analysed using the Independent Sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, and Multiple Linear Regression at the statistical significance level of 0.05. The results demonstrated that the differences in organisational types affected the success of IT projects in all aspects, while the differences in organisational sizes affected the success of IT projects in terms of the aspect of product performance as well as total aspects.