Developing risk breakdown structure for information technology organizations

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 537-546

  Holzmann, Vered ^a   Spiegler, Israel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clustering; Content analysis; Lessons learned; Project management; Risk breakdown structure; Risk management

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES; CLUSTERING; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; IT ORGANIZATIONS; LESSONS LEARNED; MANAGEMENT METHOD; METHOD OF ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL RISKS; PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS; PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS; RISK AREAS; RISK IDENTIFICATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79955943686     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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