Viewpoint-Based Risk Assessment and Prioritization

Abstract

For software projects, different stakeholders may place different emphasis on the same risk. Risks that are important to one stakeholder may be less important or irrelevant to other stakeholders and vice versa. In the overall prioritization of risks for a software project, we need to consider this viewpoint-based difference. This paper first introduces the concept of viewpoint-based assessment of risks and then presents three methods for generating the overall risk prioritization based on the separated viewpoint-based prioritizations. We also present a case study of an outsourced project by applying the proposed methods and illustrate their relative strengths and weaknesses.