Knowledge Mining for Risk Analysis of Offshore Software Development

Author

Sheng, Zhongqi ; Moriyasu, Takashi ; Tsuji, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng. & Autom., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Offshore software development is playing an increasingly important role in the technology strategies of software companies in the era of globalization and specialization. It is a significant task to analyze the risk for the success of offshore software development projects. This paper introduces two kinds of questionnaire designed to realize the knowledge miming of offshore software development from experienced project managers in the side of both clients and vendors. Knowledge mining methods used in questionnaire analysis are presented together with some analysis examples. The research is summarized and future work is given at last.

Keywords

data mining; risk analysis; software development management; knowledge mining method; offshore software development; questionnaire analysis; risk analysis; software company; Costs; Information technology; Knowledge management; Outsourcing; Programming; Project management; Research and development management; Risk analysis; Risk management; Software development management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Engineering and Computer Science, 2009. ICIECS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4994-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIECS.2009.5364836

Filename

5364836