The Risk Management Research In Company A’s IT R&D Projects

Traditional risk management has a significant role in the project management; effective project risk management can improve the success rate of the project. IT project management also need project risk management, but because the IT projects their own characteristics:the uncertainty of the requirements change, the scale of the project estimation error, and the process of completion of the project is subject to personnel factors and other factors led to the traditional project risk analysis methods and experience can not be fully applied to the IT industry. Although the overseas has a complete IT project risk management system (such as PMBOK, etc.), but it can not fully adapt to the characteristics of China’s IT projects, especially the vast number of medium and small-sized software companies, due to the restrictions of talent, technology, funds and other factors, and can not set up too large teams to implement IT project risk management.This paper comprehensive analysis A Company’s IT project risk management features based on the analysis of the current popular IT risk management theory, proposed the practical and feasible risk management strategies, refined the way to organizational guarantee, system guarantee as well as practical risk management operations. In this paper, detail tracking describe the risk identification, analysis and assessment in A company’s IT R&D projects case. Analysis each risk that was discovered, detail response every specific project risks, explore a set of steps and methods for IT projects risk management of A Company. The method of IT project risk management research that described in this paper can help similar small and medium-sized IT business managers to establish the respective characteristics of IT risk management system and provide the actual operation of the project risk control methods.