Authors:
Fernando Garcia
;
Jean Hauck
;
Fernanda Hahn
and
Raul Wazlawick
Affiliation:
Department of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Risks, Agile, Practices, Management.
Abstract:
Risk management has been perceived as important to assist in the delivery of software products that meet the expected scope, schedule, and costs. In traditional plan-driven software development, risk management includes identifying, analyzing, planning responses, monitoring, and controlling risks. In agile methods, however, risks are typically managed implicitly, through practices and values that tend to keep risks under control. However, in many contexts, such as software development for highly regulated domains, such as health and finance, this implicit risk management may not be enough. This paper presents an action research on the introduction of explicit risk management practices in a healthcare software development organization that uses agile methods. Based on identified risk management practices used in agile contexts, the research intervention is planned, applied in two teams during three iterations and the collected data are evaluated and interpreted. The results of the stu
dy raise evidence that the agile risk management practices adopted were effective in identifying and mitigating risks and improving project results, without negatively impacting the team’s productivity or the agile values adopted by the organization. Also as a result of the application of the study, a possible approach to introduce risk management practices in agile contexts emerges.
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