USC CSSE Top 10 Risk Items: People’s Choice Awards Barry Boehm, Jesal Bhuta USC Center for Systems & Software Engineering {boehm,

2 Survey: Early Statistics  Number or Surveys: 25  Average Experience: ~28 years (6 years – 51 years)  Area Distribution: –Software: 20 –Systems: 17 –Hardware: 0  Business Domain Distribution: –Aerospace: 18 –Software Infrastructure: 5 –Business: 4 –Telecom: 3 –Others: Secure Apps (1); Safety Critical Apps (1); C4ISR (1)

3 The Nominees are …  Acquisition and contracting process mismatches  Architecture complexity; quality tradeoffs  Budget and schedule constraints  COTS and other independently evolving systems  Customer-developer-user team cohesion  Migration complexity  Personnel shortfalls  Process maturity  Requirements mismatch  Requirements volatility; rapid change  Technology maturity  User interface mismatch

4 And the Winner is….

5 Additional Recommended Risk Item Nominees  Non functional requirements engineering (1)  Risk management (or lack thereof) (2)  Inadequacy of current architecture frameworks and SOE methodologies (1)

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