A look at software engineering risks in a team project course

Author

Koolmanojwong, Supannika ; Boehm, Barry

Author_Institution

Center for Syst. & Software Eng. (CSSE), Univ. of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 May 2013

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Risk identification, management, and mitigation are essential to the success of any software development projects. At the University of Southern California (USC), CSCI577ab is a graduate level software engineering course sequence that teaches the best software engineering practices, and allows students to apply the learned knowledge in developing real-client projects. This paper analyzes the risks encountered by teams, identifies the relationships between effective risk analysis and the success of the project, and discusses how risk patterns determine the student´s course of action. This paper also reports the top risks of software development in the software engineering class.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; educational institutions; further education; project management; risk management; software development management; team working; CSCI577ab; University of Southern California; graduate level software engineering course sequence; risk identification; risk management; risk mitigation; software development projects; software engineering class; software engineering risks; team project course; Object oriented modeling; Personnel; Risk management; Software; Software engineering; Springs; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2013 IEEE 26th Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1093-0175

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595233

Filename

6595233