Risks are inherent in any automated process. Murphy's law can take hold of your database & software systems and transport your business to
the land of Oz in the blink of an eye. To manage software risk you need to
identify the risks. We have done research to assist you in identifying
tools and services that can help you in managing these risks.
Software Risk Management by: The
SEI Software Risk Evaluation
(SRE) Service is a diagnostic and decision-making tool that enables the identification, analysis, tracking, mitigation, and
communication of risks in software-intensive programs. An SRE is used to identify and categorize specific program risks emanating
from product, process, management, company, and constraints. The program's own personnel participate in the identification,
analysis, and mitigation of risks facing their own development effort.
Software Risk Management Site: We are a group
of dedicated software professionals committed to increasing the knowledge of risk management and general software project management
skills for ourselves and others. We have come together as a team in the context of a graduate level course on Software Project
Management at George Mason University. Within that context we have been exposed to the three essential elements of effective
software management: People, Process, and Product (a.k.a. The Three P's). We have constructed this website in order to gain new
insights into the software project management process and increase our knowledge of one of it's most important elements: effective
risk management. This site is both our product and the documentation of our process.
The DACS is a Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis
Center: Software Risk Management is a proactive approach for minimizing the uncertainty and potential loss associated with
a project. Some categories of risk include product size, business impact, customer-related, process, technology, development
environment, staffing (size and experience), schedule, and cost.
PROAct Risk Management Software: The software
PROAct has been designed to provide you with a sound basis to make well-founded decisions. It is not the intention of PROAct to take
care about the implementation of actions which is part of project management, quality management or wherever the source of
uncertainty is. Also PROAct does not comprise any 'early detection system'. Even provided there are indicators (the most dangerous
uncertainties are those that are totally unpredictable!) that can tell something about an upcoming occurrence of an uncertainty, we
see the follow-up of such indicators located within the controlling or accounting function of an organisation.
