Title :
Risk analysis in project of software development
Author :
Lu, Xiangnan ; Ge, Yali
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.2003.1252234
