Methods and approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of IT projects

In the article the activity of investment in the development of information infrastructure of enterprises are shown on base of the analysis of statistical information. A content of the term ?IT project? is considered. It is determined that the complexity of effectiveness evaluation of IT project depends on the purpose of evaluation, the complexity of forming the system of indicators for analyzing of IT project effectiveness. A posteriori and a priori approaches are considered. The advantages and disadvantages of financial, heuristic and probabilistic methods of economic effectiveness evaluation are analyzed. It is proposed to evaluate an IT project on the basis of activity-based costing, which allows to relate the importance of the functions implemented in the IT project with the cost of its implementation.