Critical factors in IT project teams

This paper presents a framework and empirical analyses for the survey data from 1,678 managers and professionals working in a collaborative environment for Japanese software houses to understand relationships among factors of factor groups; the project manager, project team members, and the organization, which may lead to project success/failures. The results of the research model using SEM show that all three models are positively, closely related to each other. Among those three models, a relationship between factors related to the project manager and factors related to the organization is very strong and positive, while a relationship between factors related to project team members and factors related to the organization is weak.