Title :
Managing risk in software maintenance
Author :
Charette, Robert N. ; Adams, Kevin MacG ; White, Mary B.
Author_Institution :
ITABHI Corp., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
Software risk management in maintenance differs in major ways from risk management in development. Risk opportunities are more frequent, risks come from more diverse sources, and projects have less freedom to act on them. The authors describe how they dealt with these differences in a large US Navy software maintenance organization
Keywords :
military computing; naval engineering computing; risk management; software maintenance; large US Navy software maintenance organization; risk opportunities; software maintenance; software risk management; Application software; Documentation; Information technology; Logistics; Marine vehicles; Risk management; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Sparks; Time factors;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
