Abstract

Software development projects still of high failure rates. Different risk management approaches are recommended by researchers and followed by organizations in order to control this failure rate. Current research is focused towards preventive risk management approach that improves the development process. In this study, we introduce a framework that enhances this approach. This framework describes a systematic method towards enhancing preventive risk management throughout the software development process. In this study, we devised sets of risk management strategies and controls that aim at mitigating each of the identified risks in the adapted list. These strategies besides the identified risk factors are utilized and embedded in the right corresponding Software Development Life Cycle phase to construct our preventive framework.

Keywords:

Preventive risk management , risk , risk factor , strategy,

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