Modern software development faces many challenges nowadays. In order to avoiding, minimizing, and monitoring the risks and their impact, it is important to identify, estimate and evaluate the risks. The study addresses software risk management in software development area. An approach to analysis, structuring, and usage is proposed for the information technology (IT) projects in the risk management context. It is based on the study of the existing theoretical knowledge and practices and examples of better management. The author provides recommendations on software risk management and gives a brief overview of the automated software tools.
Authors:
Elena Pesotskaya
Senior lecturer, School of Software Engineering, Software Management Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Develops the training courses on Computer science for the HSE Master and Bachelors Programs. Working at Accenture as a project manager from 2002 participates in IT projects with the focus on organization and methodology.
Sergey Avdoshin
Professor, Head of Software Project Management School, Head of Software Engineering Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Took part in development of professional standards for IT industry and Federal educational standard for new higher professional education for the stream of program engineering. Experienced in development and realization of educational programs for masters and bachelors in software engineering at HSE according to professional and educational international standards.