The Research on the Risks & the Countermeasures of the Distributed IT Projects

Nowadays, more and more large IT projects need to unit several entities to accomplish together, which forms project-oriented and geographically distributed virtual organizations and leads to new distributed risks. This article first gives a definition of the distributed IT project (DITPs), then based on the literature, studies the risk characteristics, risk scope, risk factors of DITPs, and finally studies the developing process of the DITPs and gives a risk management process of iterative and incremental agile development of the whole lifecycle of the DITPs from a few respects such as the set of an organization goal of win-win, the project development of grading iteration and increment, the introduction supervisory mechanism of a third party, and the establishment of study mechanism of risk management.