The central theme in Construction Management (CM) and CM research is improving the performance of construction industry. Much effort and thought is given to improving project performance. Within CM there is a natural inclination to focus on projects and project management (PM). Companies in the construction industry also see project management as their key competence. Both have little appreciat...

Drawing both from the IS literature on software project risk management and the contingency research in Organization Theory literature, the present study develops an integrative contingency model of software project risk management. Adopting a profile deviation perspective of fit, the outcome of a software development project (Performance) is hypothesized to be influenced by the fit between the...

Managing risks in real-world software projects is of paramount importance. A significant class of such risks is related to the engineering of requirements, commonly involving the presentation and analysis of risk management arguments from both software engineers and clients involved in collaborative debates. In this work, drawing inspiration from argumentation theory in Artificial Intelligence,...

Risk is not always avoidable, but it is controllable. The aim of this paper is to present new techniques which use the stepwise regression analysis to model and evaluate the risks in planning software development and reducing risk with software process improvement. Top ten software risk factors in planning software development phase and thirty control factors were presented to respondents. This...

Software development is a complex activity. It is involved with different scenarios and risks which must be managed through a systematic approach to Software Risk Management (SRM). The best software process depends on the project’s particularities. Situational Method Engineering (SME) focuses on building project specific method/process according to the situation at hand. This paper proposes an ...

In a collaborative risk management scenario, project stakeholders often need natural forms of recording and reusing past risk management experiences so that they could better assess whether there are threats to the goals of new projects. The contribution of this paper is to propose an enhanced case-based reasoning (CBR) approach to support project participants to exploit such experiences which ...

Outsourced software project is one of the main ways of software development, which is of high failure rate. Intelligent risk prediction model can help identify high risk project in time. However, the existing models are mostly based on such a hypothesis that all the cost of misclassification is equal, which is not consistent with the reality that in the domain of software project risk predictio...

Scheduling problems have been studied a lot over the last decade. Due to the complexity and the variety of such problems, most works consider static problems in which activities are known in advance and constraints are fixed. However, every scheduling problem is subject to unexpected events (consider for example a new activity to schedule, or a machine breakdown). In these cases, a new solution...

Background Risks associated with a software project have the potential to affect all stakeholders. Today much software makes use of off-the-shelf (OTS) components. A better understanding of OTS-derived software risks will help to define responsibilities for these risks, and also to avoid them. Aim Our objective is to identify, classify and compare risks of OTS-based software projects from both ...

Agile distributed environments pose particular challenges related to control of quality and collaboration in software development. Moreover, while face-to-face interaction is fundamental in agile development, distributed environments must rely extensively on mediated interactions. On this backdrop, we report from an in-depth case study of an agile distributed software project. Applying Kirsch’s...