The Carnegie Pulse: Pulse Scheduler: 17-610 Risk Management for Software Intensive Projects

17-610 Risk Management for Software Intensive Projects

Units:	9.0
Department:	Software Engineering

Over half of all software projects fail to meet initial requirements, cost, schedule and/or customer expectations due to problems that occur through the development life cycle. Some of these problems start out as risks that if identified, analyzed and mitigated have the potential of never becoming a problem. Despite its benefits, the practice of risk management in industry today is ad-hoc, inconsistent, and often ineffective, leading decision makers to make poor choices based on under communicated or mis-communicated information. The goal of this course is to provide the student with a way to reason about risks in software intensive projects and the underlying factors that influence them. In the process students will also understand existing tools, techniques or strategies that might assist in mitigating or avoiding risks completely. Course topics will include Specific approaches to risk management, Risk management based diagnostics in the areas of security, software architectures, and components off the shelf based systems Continuous risk management Team risk management Effective vs. compliant risk management. The lessons will be based on lectures, class discussions, and homework activities in which specific techniques and strategies will be explored. Industry projects will allow students to conduct real live software risk evaluations and gain a deeper understanding of the risk management cycle from identification through analysis and mitigation. Students will also be given a chance to conduct research in risk management areas in their chosen areas of interest.

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