An industrial case study of implementing software risk management

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 277-287

  Freimut, Bernd ^a   Hartkopf, Susanne ^a   Kaiser, Peter ^a   Kontio, Jyrki ^b   Kobitzsch, Werner ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Tenovis GmbH and Co KG   (France)

Author keywords

Case Study; Lessons Learned; Risk Management; Riskit Method

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

SOFTWARE RISK MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035783741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/503209.503247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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