Analyzing project risks within a cultural and organizational setting

Authors:
Wenting Ma; Lin Liu; Wenzhong Feng; Yuhui Shan; Fei Peng
Affiliations:
School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Corporate Technology, Siemens Ltd., Beijing, China
Venue:
LMSA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Leadership and Management in Software Architecture
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Risk management and assessment of software project is highly relevant to the social and culture context of the development activities. This paper proposes a risk analysis approach which represents the organizational settings of a project as a social dependency network, and identifies risks originated from broken role dependency relations, unsatisfied goals, unfinished tasks, and unavailable resources amongst the network. Survey results on Chinese culture implications to software projects are incorporated as an example scenario to illustrate how to evaluate the influences of culture related factors to software project risk management using the proposed approach.