It is a general trend that the role of projects is increasingly appreciated in the
life of individual organizations. We have come to the point in the last decade where
certain organizations use this method for their entire operation, while large companies
implement their priority developments only with project management methods. The project
management knowledge is becoming progressively essential also in the case of smaller
businesses nowadays as they come into contact with projects through their partners
or their own experiences. Although the methodology is constantly spreading and growing,
so far, there have been just a few scientific results about where IT projects are
located in the organization's goal-system and how they are related to the corporate
or organizational strategy. Accordingly, the basic goals of the IT projects will be
examined in the framework of the current research, and the questions about that, are
these goals related to the corporate strategy and how effective are the individual
companies using their IT projects?
