Software Project Risk Management Information System Research And Development

Software engineers have always been facing the problems of schedule, budget or the quality of the software product, those problems are called "software crisis". Though many considerable improvements have been made in terms of design, tools and development process endeavoring to decrease those risks, but the situation was not changed much. With the development of software engineering, in 1980s Boehm introduced the theory of risk management into software development area. After that, researchers gradually realized the importance of applying risk management into software projects. Having been aware that none risk management was the root cause of software crisis, people started to conduct risk management research in software industry.Current research of risk management in software industry basically focuses on process, tools and methodology. And the realization of the designed process and methodology of software risk management more or less relies on the support of related management tools. However, the current management tools of software risk management could only fulfill some basic functions, such as all kinds of risk analysis tools, information platform for risk consulting, or even some outstanding risk management software could not perform risk communication. Little research of comprehensive risk management system has been conducted. The fact is that during the software risk management process there is numerous different types of risk data that has a great deal of logic relations with each other having to be stored and managed. And the management operations cannot be completed by a single list of risk factors. Meanwhile, carrying out the software-project risk management is also a systematic process, which demands an ordered risk communication channel within the software development team. Also, the software companies need to accumulate risk management experience to improve their risk management capabilities. Therefore, it is necessary to build a software project risk management system based on risk database and WEB distributing, in order to fulfill the comprehensive risk management in software development projects. According to that, based on the previous papers and practical investigation, the author has designed and softwarizaed a set of effective process mechanism for risk management working with appropriate software risk management methodology and tools. The research result of this paper is a risk management system for software projects based on WEB, with the functions of risk identification, analysis, planning and controlling and the capabilities to realize risk communication and risk learning. Based on the software risk management process and system function analysis, the system has been modeled in UML.