Components of Software Development Risk: How to Address Them? A Project Manager Survey
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
European Journal of Information Systems
Managing Software Security Risks
Computer
Socio-technical and human cognition elements of information systems
Information Systems Research
The development of an instrument to measure software project risk
The development of an instrument to measure software project risk
Software Development Failures
The one-minute risk assessment tool
Communications of the ACM - Bioinformatics
Understanding software project risk: a cluster analysis
Information and Management
Communications of the ACM - Special issue: RFID
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: From technical to socio-technical change: Tackling the human and organizational aspects of systems development projects
Toward an assessment of software development risk
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Attention-shaping tools, expertise, and perceived control in IT project risk assessment
Decision Support Systems
The effects of optimistic and pessimistic biasing on software project status reporting
Information and Management
Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study
Journal of Management Information Systems
An Integrative Contingency Model of Software Project Risk Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
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Information systems development projects are a significant expenditure of time, effort and money for many enterprises. Historically it has been estimated that 50-80% of projects fail to achieve their objectives for a variety of reasons. Researchers have identified numerous factors associated with system development failure. In this paper, we first synthesize the vast research regarding systems development risk factors and provide a framework that illustrates interactions between risk factors. The framework was used to develop an open-ended questionnaire that was answered by an inter-industry group of experienced systems development engineers and project managers. Analysis of their reports indicates that experienced professionals perceive that all risk factors (technical, resource, etc.) ultimately derive from organizationally-oriented factors, to be solved with organizational responses. This holistic viewpoint of risk assessment is counter to that of systems professionals more involved in day-to-day development decision making. For these developers, risks are more likely to be characterized as fitting into traditional discrete categories. This apparent dichotomy of risk importance was further investigated through an intra-organizational study which directly assessed how professionals recognize and treat risks in the development process. Results illustrate that a successful project environment may be characterised as one in which all systems professionals maintain a holistic view of organizational risk and that organizational culture, as opposed to experience, may predicate such an environment. Implications and future research directions are discussed.