The Research On Company Software Project Risk Management

With the advance of technology, the development of society, and the increasing social demand, computer has become one of the three requisite tools for talents in the21st century. Nowadays, computer science has spread to all walks of life, while the software projects which rely on computer have plunged into every field of economy and society. People in this big era have enjoyed the fruits of software projects. However, risks are present as well. Therefore, for reasonably analyzing and efficiently evading the risk factors of software project, an increasing number of managers have thrown themselves to the utilization of the so called risk management technologies. This paper made some simple research on the risk management of software projects, on the basis of the real software project of a manufacturing company (hereinafter referred to as company A).Based on the state of the art technology of both the domestic and overseas risk management methods, the author classified and summarized the risks which may happen on each stage of the software project’s life cycle. Furthermore, by comparing and analyzing the business development, tendencies and existing issues of some classical overseas cases and models, as well as a method which given priority to the qualitative analysis, and quantitative analysis as complementary, author of this paper discussed the progress of risk management of software project. In accordance with the merit of the classical risk management methods and the own feature and issues of Company A, a set of methods and tools fit for Company A are launched. At the same time, a new model (PRM model) suit for the SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) like Company A has been put forward and been used in practice.This paper demonstrated the suggested PRM (Project Roftware Model) model using a real software development project--XFK project, which proved the practical applicability of the PRM model in risk planning, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response and risk control, etc. At the end of the project, the author investigated the application effect from the related participator of this project, and finally proved the validity of PRM model. This research has great significant for the study of risk management on the SMEs like Company A.