Towards an Approach for Integrating Risk Management Practices into Agile Contexts

Fernando Garcia, Jean Hauck, Fernanda Hahn, Raul Wazlawick

2024

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 study 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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Garcia F., Hauck J., Hahn F. and Wazlawick R. (2024). Towards an Approach for Integrating Risk Management Practices into Agile Contexts. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-706-1, SciTePress, pages 46-58. DOI: 10.5220/0012790200003753

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft24,
author={Fernando Garcia and Jean Hauck and Fernanda Hahn and Raul Wazlawick},
title={Towards an Approach for Integrating Risk Management Practices into Agile Contexts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT},
year={2024},
pages={46-58},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012790200003753},
isbn={978-989-758-706-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT
TI - Towards an Approach for Integrating Risk Management Practices into Agile Contexts
SN - 978-989-758-706-1
AU - Garcia F.
AU - Hauck J.
AU - Hahn F.
AU - Wazlawick R.
PY - 2024
SP - 46
EP - 58
DO - 10.5220/0012790200003753
PB - SciTePress