Reports and studies describing the impact of risk on
software projects.
Managing Risk: Methods for Software Systems Development by Elaine M. Hall, Ph.D. - The highlights of this book include: six disciplines for managing product development; the steps to predictable risk-management process results; how to establish the infrastructure for a risk-aware culture; methods for the implementation of a risk management plan; and case studies of people in crisis-and in control. Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Series in Software Engineering; Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; February 1998. ISBN: 0201255928
Air Traffic Control: Immature Software Acquisition Processes Increase FAA System Acquisition Risks - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is spending billions of dollars to modernize software-intensive air traffic control systems. The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the processes used to acquire software, using models developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute to define and determine an organization's software process maturity. FAA did not fully meet any of the criteria to achieve a "repeatable" level of maturity, the second of a five-level maturity scale.
Formal Inspections - The practice of conducting formal Inspections on requirements, architecture, designs at all levels (particularly detailed design), on code prior to unit test, and on test plans, to assess the quality of all baselined artifacts prior to release for project use.
Risk Driven Software Process Improvement - The aim of DriveSPI is to produce and validate by trial applications a European framework for improving the software process maturity with strong emphasis on risk management. Integration of risk management within process improvement is recognised by the software community as a major challenge for the next decade.
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