Research on the Risk Identification Index System of Software Project

The risk management is a very essential part in software development process. Comparing to the normal projects, there is much more uncertainty in software projects. The software project urgently needs to strengthen the risk management, which mainly displays in the following two aspects: firstly, the risk management is the internal request in various project groups. As a result of the rapid development in software technology and the widespread application of software system in various social aspects, each kind of risk factors and the risk occurrence have greatly increased, and the loss scale that the risk event created has expanded. All these issues have proposed higher management requests for the project groups. Secondly, the unceasing improvement of risk management method and the successful application on many typical projects have attracted many software project groups to carry on their own risk management. Currently, the risk management has overcome the limitation of traditional methods that only adopt some single measure to deal with risks. While, the current risk management comprehensively utilizes each kind of control risk measures, and improve these methods day by day. However, in software development process, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment are the key elements assuring project success.

This paper is designed to reconstruct the risk identification system of software projects from the perspective of nine fields of project management.