Supporting Team Risk Management in Software Procurement and Development Projects

This paper presents a method of collaborative risk management in software procurement and development projects. First it overviews the success criteria and typical risks from the point of view of different stakeholders. Then a concept of the continuous process of risk identification and analysis is presented together with the structures supporting the management of the process and the representation of risks. We also propose a security policy to be applied in order to reflect possibly conflicting interests of project participants. Finally, a practical solution – the software tool supporting risk assessment, together with the results of three validation experiments are briefly presented.