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Title Analysis of Scrum based Software Development to Improve Risk Management in Pakistani Software Industry

Author(s) Samra Aaimen Malik

Abstract Software evolves continuously to accommodate market volatility, posing danger to the project. Agile approaches have been suggested to handle these continuous changes in software requirements. Although, where there is a considerable amount of academic literature on the process of projects, a very negligible amount of research considered proper process for risk management in scrum projects in Pakistani Software Industry. The process of risk management involves seven processes such as planning, identification, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, risk response planning, risk response implementation, and monitoring. While adopting agile, many risks arise so proper mitigation strategies should be established by incorporating all risk management processes to overcome these risks. Existing literature lacks the implementation of proper processes for risk management that could lead the software toward failure. The major reason of failure of software projects is limited application of proper risk management. Agile methods like scrum do not propose particular activities for risk management. Due to this practitioner are not completely aware of these uncertain events. Keeping in mind this weakness, this study tried to provide mitigation strategies for a proper risk management process based on the scrum method. For that purpose, systematic literature review was conducted for identifying the challenges that can arise in agile software development. The practicality of these challenges was found by conducting survey in different software development companies. Based on these challenges mitigation strategies were proposed by conducting interviews from industry practitioners for mitigating these challenges. To validate these proposed mitigation strategies, a focus group methodology is applied. The mitigation strategies provide recommendations to mitigate the identified risk management challenges in scrum development. The proposed mitigation strategies will be helpful in reducing risks as well as in facilitating teams to handle them more easily in agile projects that use the scrum methodology and to enhance scrum project success rate.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Engineering

Language English

Publication Date 2024-04-30

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