Risk Management, Software Outsourcing Project

With the development of economic globalization, communication and Internet technology, software outsourcing increases dramatically. These software projects bring both economic growth and problem. Competition is leading to lower profit, tighter schedule, higher quality and more function of software project. Software risk management aims to identify all possible risks earlier, prevent risks effectively through some process and method. Try to limit the bad impact to project cycle, cost and quality from project risks. If it is necessary, a series of methods should be generated to identify, prevent and weaken software project risks. To avoid being delayed, over budget and poor quality, project risk management turns to be extremely important.Based on the summarization of recent research and application in software risk management, the author analyses the risk management situation in software outsourcing project in-depth. At the same time, take risk management experience in software outsourcing company, in which she works into consideration, the author raised a particular risk management method in software outsourcing company. This method was approved to be simple and effective after implementing it in more than 40 software outsourcing projects.In the third chapter, there is a general introduction of software risk management and the author provides a practical method to assess software risks in outsourcing project. In the fourth chapter, the author splits the software project cycle into several phases then introduces the main risks of each phase, describes how to assess the risks and the solution of risk management. In the fifth chapter, the author introduces how to implement the risk management method raised in this paper. At theend, the paper introduces risk management implementation and a method to evaluate the risk management practice in a company.