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Risk Assessment in Agile Software Development

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Applied Computing for Software and Smart Systems (ACSS 2024)

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Abstract

Risk assessment in software engineering has seen many approaches. Despite the amount of scientific literature on risk management, the failure rate of software projects after the first installation remains considerable. The reason is probably that the dynamically changing software feature has not been imbibed in the framework, which mostly deals with risk management in retrospect. This article attempts to suggest a new approach which will take these gaps into consideration.

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Work partially supported by SERICS (PE00000014—CUP H73C2200089001) under the NRRP MUR program funded by the EU—NGEU, and iNEST—Interconnected NordEst Innovation Ecosystem funded by PNRR (Mission 4.2, Investment 49 1.5) NextGeneration EU (ECS_00000043—CUP H43C22000540006).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, S. A. Jaipuria College, Kolkata, India

    Oindrilla Ghosh

  2. A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, Kolkata, India

    Rituparna Chaki

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India

    Nabendu Chaki

  4. DAIS, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy

    Agostino Cortesi

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    Nabendu Chaki

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    Agostino Cortesi

  3. A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Rituparna Chaki

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Ghosh, O., Chaki, R., Chaki, N., Cortesi, A. (2025). Risk Assessment in Agile Software Development. In: Chaki, N., Cortesi, A., Chaki, R., Saeed, K. (eds) Applied Computing for Software and Smart Systems. ACSS 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 980. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9762-2_18

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