Authors:
Peng Zhou
and
Hareton K. N. Leung
Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Keyword(s):
Scheduling Strategy, Risk Mitigation, Time Element, Risk Management, Project Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Operational Research
;
Risk Management
;
Scheduling and Estimating
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Project Management
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.