Risk analysis in project of software development

Author

Lu, Xiangnan ; Ge, Yali

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2003

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

75

Abstract

The Project Management in the area of IT is becoming hot topic now. The risk problems in IT Projects, especially in software projects become more and more concentration in software project management in China. This paper analyze systematically the characteristics of project management for software itself, then the paper analyses the risk of software development project in following two aspects: one for owners another for contractors. To owners the paper identify and analyze the risk in software development projects according to life cycle of a project. To contractors the paper identifies and assess the risk of project management in software development, and on the bases of investigating of software development project in the IT enterprises of China some conclusions are obtained with the method of AHP.

Keywords

contracts; information technology; project management; risk analysis; software development management; AHP method; Chinas ITenterprise; IT projects; analytic hierarchy process; contractors; information technology; owners; projects life cycle; risk analysis; risk assessment; risk identification; software development project; software project management; Costs; Financial management; Knowledge management; Manufacturing processes; Programming; Project management; Risk analysis; Risk management; Scheduling; Software development management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Management Conference, 2003. IEMC '03. Managing Technologically Driven Organizations: The Human Side of Innovation and Change

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8150-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMC.2003.1252234

Filename

1252234