Scheduling Strategies for Risk Mitigation

Peng Zhou, Hareton K. N. Leung

2013

Abstract

Risk mitigation is essential for risk management because it aims to reduce or eliminate risks. To make the best use of resources, a scheduling strategy for risk mitigation is needed to determine the risks to be mitigated and when to mitigate them. The traditionally used strategy for scheduling risk mitigation, “risk value first strategy”, does not consider time elements of risk. Both PMI risk management framework and IEEE standard for software project risk management point out that time elements should be considered in risk mitigation. However, there is a lack of principles and guidelines on how to schedule risk mitigation with due consideration of these time elements. In this paper, we formally define scheduling strategy for risk mitigation, identify new scheduling strategies, and compare their performance by applying stochastic simulation.

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Zhou P. and K. N. Leung H. (2013). Scheduling Strategies for Risk Mitigation . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 365-376. DOI: 10.5220/0004409203650376


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@conference{icsoft-ea13,
author={Peng Zhou and Hareton K. N. Leung},
title={Scheduling Strategies for Risk Mitigation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={365-376},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004409203650376},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - Scheduling Strategies for Risk Mitigation
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Zhou P.
AU - K. N. Leung H.
PY - 2013
SP - 365
EP - 376
DO - 10.5220/0004409203650376