Cross-Cultural Risk Assessment Model

Due to the increasing of cooperation with global, cultural differences are specified as work factors in distributed projects. This paper aims at identifying quantitatively the cross cultural risk assessment. The cultural differences; language, communication style, time, and development method are examined as critical risk factors that affect the software development project. The mathematical model has been designed to quantify the effect of cultural differences of team members. Begin with the fundamental formula of the risk assessment, "Risk = Probability of the event x Losses associated with that event", the probability is estimated from the average number of conflicts in software development team, by means of the Poisson \´s process; the losses of each factor was estimated in term of their levels. The output from the model can be used in the risk management to increase achievements of the project.