Importance of time management in IT projects

This article consists of two parts. The first part is a review of the literature about IT project management and time management in project. The second part shows the results of the research on the influence of time management on project success. The research tool was a questionnaire. The authors invited 75 project managers to participate in the research and 53 of them sent back a completed questionnaire. The research tool contained three parts. The first of them was the imprint. The second part concerned the way of defining IT projects and time management in IT projects. The third part concerned the topic of the research. The questionnaire included twenty questions. After results analysis and interpretation, it is the research shows the impact is so significant, that it can be asserted as it decides of success or failure of the whole project and it has to be managed all the time during the project. The authors were aware the research was limited by having such a small research sample and geographical constraints, so it is suggested that further, more extensive research should be conducted in order to validate the result of this research.