Impact of Agile Project Management Methodology on IT Project Success: Exploring the Mediating role of Team Communication and Team Empowerment.

Based on the Resource Based View and Social Identity Theory, this endeavor intends to determine the influence of agile project management methodology on project success by applying the mediating role of team-level outcomes (team communication and team empowerment) on the relationship between agile project management and project success. The data gathered from 226 project team professionals working in the Information Technology sector of Pakistan. This endeavour utilized Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modeling to substantiate the direct and mediating effects. The result indicated that agile project management methodology significantly influences project success. Moreover, the result further validated that team communication and team empowerment mediate this relationship. There is a deficiency of an empirical investigation on the relationship between agile project management and project success in evolving republics context. This study makes a significant contribution to the field of IT project management by demonstrating that agile project management impacts project success while team communication and team empowerment mediate this relation. This is one of the earliest study that explores the inter-relationship among agile project management, project success and team outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]