Implementing risk management on software intensive projects
Rising costs, falling performance, and slipping schedules are common problems on large scale software projects. The authors describe key risk issues and how they were mitigated in one DoD (military) project.
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| Published in | IEEE software Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 83 - 89 |
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| Language | English |
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Los Alamitos
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01.05.1997
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| ISSN | 0740-7459 1937-4194 |
| DOI | 10.1109/52.589242 |
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| Abstract | Rising costs, falling performance, and slipping schedules are common problems on large scale software projects. The authors describe key risk issues and how they were mitigated in one DoD (military) project. |
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| AbstractList | Rising costs, falling performance, and slipping schedules are common problems on large scale software projects. The authors describe key risk issues and how they were mitigated in one DoD (military) project. Rising costs, falling performance, and slipping schedules are common problems on large scale software projects. The authors describe key risk issues and how they were mitigated in one DoD (military) project The authors provide experienced-based risk management guidelines from a highly successful distributed command-and-control project that uses several innovative risk management practices. The TRW project is a large software-intensive command and control system developed using the TRW Ada Process Model, an extension of the risk-driven Spiral Model, and a reusable C3 software architecture. The system consists of real-time processing of input messages from various external sources, algorithm processing, data display, and processing output messages to various other external systems with very tight performance and high-reliability requirements. TRW had complete responsibility for system engineering design, development, and deployment. The operational software consists of over one million lines of Ada source code. |
| Author | Shishido, P.S. Conrow, E.H. |
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