Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences Proc. of 5th National Conference on Software Engineering Risk Identification Patterns for Software Projects

The paper presents a systematic approach to software risk identification based on risk patterns. The approach assumes explicit modelling of the relevant business process that provides for controlling the scope and ensures the completeness of the analyses. We demonstrate how this approach can be applied using RUP as the reference model of software processes. Then we report on the validation experiment during which we applied our approach to verify completeness of a well known checklist of software project schedule risks. The paper concludes on the results of this experiment and gives our plans for further research.