SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT RISK MANAGEMENT SURVEY

摘要

Software development practitioners have agreed, that software development risk management is important activity. Top twelve risks are identified and mitigation activities are highlighted. Software development managers could use the identified risks as a checklist for initial risk analysis. The preventative and corrective actions proposed by experts could be used as guidelines for planning software development risk mitigation activities. There are two very important steps in software development risk management, which could be considered as a state of art: 1. Identification of risk. 2. Finding the appropriate preventative or corrective action. Communication among software developers as well as communication between customer and developer is very important for successful software development. The further research is needed to provide effective methods for accumulation and appliance of software managers' experience in risk identification and mitigation.