E-RISK

Evidence-based risk management in global software development projects

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF KEELE 

 Organization address address: KEELE UNIVERSITY FINANCE DPT
city: KEELE
postcode: ST5 5BG

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Pearl
Cognome: Brereton
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1782733079
Fax: +44 1782 734268

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 234˙089 €
 EC contributo 234˙089 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF
 Funding Scheme MC-IIF
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-06-01   -   2013-05-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY OF KEELE

 Organization address address: KEELE UNIVERSITY FINANCE DPT
city: KEELE
postcode: ST5 5BG

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Pearl
Cognome: Brereton
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1782733079
Fax: +44 1782 734268

UK (KEELE) coordinator 234˙089.60

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search    techniques    training    benefit    systematic    literature    group    outsourced    rate    papers    managers    software    fellow    engineering    transfer    suitable    team    criteria    slr    pilot    keele    global    quality    risks    paper    evidence    gsd    risk    hence    poor   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This proposal is to enable Professor June Verner, who is recognised as a leading researcher in project failure, global software engineering and project management, to work with the leading internationally recognized research group in evidence-based software engineering at Keele University. The project will produce a set of guidelines to assist project managers in the identification of risks relating to global software development (GSD) and to recommend ways in which the risks can be addressed, minimised or mitigated within different project contexts, based upon high quality empirical evidence. The project will also deliver a software tool for use by GSD project managers. The project will therefore reduce the high failure rate of GSD projects. Essential to the success of the project is the training of both the research fellow and the project team at the host institution. The project will facilitate the transfer of invaluable knowledge relating to GSD and its associated risks to Europe and form the basis of a long-term collaboration between the researchers. In addition, the research fellow will receive training in evidence-based software engineering techniques, including systematic literature reviews, which can be used within teaching and research, and also benefit software practice in Australia.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU team applied a method of assessing previous research to the problems associated with risk management in globally outsources software projects. The systematic literature review (SLR) methodology was used to aggregate research results in order to help to improve such risk management.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Projects in global software development (GSD) are believed to be risky and have a high rate of failure. Hence, it may benefit software developers to learn from failure experts.

Such was the philosophy guiding the EU-funded project 'Evidence-based risk management in global software development projects' (http://www.keele.ac.uk/scm/research/e-risk/ (E-RISK)). One goal was to help project managers identify and mitigate risks in outsourced software development. Additionally, the group set targets for training and knowledge transfer, and assessed whether expertise in software engineering could be combined with the SLR technique. The two-year undertaking concluded in May 2013.

A major part of the project's first phase involved training of a research fellow in SLR techniques through a pilot study. The work led to several technical reports and one conference paper. The latter was fleshed out during the project's second phase to become a journal paper.

During the pilot study, project members found that Brazilian researchers were working on a similar topic. The resulting collaboration produced a research paper, and showed that literature searches for a mapping study on this topic could be conducted reliably using just two search engines.

Since poor quality research may not yield reliable results, suitable quality assessment criteria were needed in order to identify, and possibly exclude, poor quality primary studies. Given that suitable criteria were not available from previous research, the project developed its own to classify the quality of papers included in the main SLR. The initial search yielded over 1 500 candidate studies, which was too many to complete with available resources. Hence the criteria were narrowed to include only GSD projects having a client company that outsourced development to a different legal entity. Thereby 77 papers were accepted for analysis. Two researchers worked independently to extract data.

The E-RISK project has benefited the software development community by identifying both risks and management strategies. Applying the results of the project to European GSD project management could lead to fewer failures.

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