Insight into Risk Management in Five Software Organizations

Author

Kajko-Mattsson, Mira ; Lundholm, Jan ; Norrby, Jonas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Sci., Stockholm Univ. & R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

326

Abstract

Many software development and evolution projects use risk management process for tackling various uncertainties, unexpected events and unclear project prerequisites. Despite this, little is known about their effectiveness. In this paper, we report on the status of risk management practice within five organizations. The report encompasses issues such as (1) industrial understanding of risk, (2) project uncertainty, (3) risk management within projects, and (4) use of risk management process.

Keywords

organisational aspects; risk management; software maintenance; industrial risk understanding; project prerequisites; project uncertainty; risk management process; software development projects; software evolution projects; software organizations; Application software; Computer industry; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Programming; Project management; Quality management; Risk management; Software engineering; Uncertainty; business opportunity; definition of risk; maturity indicator; project uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2009. SEAA '09. 35th Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Patras

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3784-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEAA.2009.79

Filename

5349938