The “Earth-Moon” model on software project risk management

Abstract

Traditional theory on software project risk management only stands from the perspective of the general project management to analyze the risks and doesn't give full consideration to the characteristics of software projects and software engineering process. To solve this problem, this paper generalizes two types of lifecycles in the software project risk management, analyzes its relations between them, and then put forward "Earth-Moon" conceptual model on software project risk management. The key technologies involved in the new model are also analyzed and solved. In addition, the workflow and implementation arithmetic for this model are designed.