Critical affecting factors of IT project management

IT project management plays a very important role in IT industry. Many IT projects fail in the world each year. What are the major problems existing in IT project management? What are the reasons for these problems? And how to deal with the problems? This paper mainly states the obstacles to IT project management, adopts the Fishbone Diagram to analyze comprehensively the key factors which affect IT project management, summarizes the critical affecting factors, and on the basis of the above, puts forward countermeasures to deal with the problems. The paper draws the following conclusion: the critical affecting factors of IT project management include customers´ requirements, project teams, project managers, top management, communication, changes in market demand, policies, and laws, etc.