Communicative Project Risk Management in IT Projects

17/01/2012
Door Karel de Bakker
Project management practitioners and scientists assume that risk management contributes to project success through
better planning of time, money and requirements. Howevel; current literature on the relation between risk management and 1T project success provides hardly any evidence for this assumption. Nevertheless, risk management is usedfrequently
on 1T projects. Findings from new research provide evidence that individual risk management activities are able to contribute to project success through "communicative effects". Risk management triggers or stimulates action taking, it influences and synchronizes stakeholders' perceptions and expectations and it shapes inter-stakeholder relationships.
These effects contribute to the success of the project.