Knowledge-based risk management: Survey on Brazilian software development enterprises

• Autor(a) principal: Neves, Sandra Miranda [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Da Silva, Carlos Eduardo Sanches, Salomon, Valério Antonio Pamplona [UNESP], Santos, André Leonardo Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_6; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/75142
• topic: Incubated and Graduated Technological Based Enterprises; Knowledge Management; Risks Management; Software development; Knowledge-based risk managements; Management techniques; Multivariate statistical method; research methods; Risks management; Software project; Industry; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge management; Risk management; Software design; Software engineering; Surveys; Enterprise software

A risks management, carried on in an effective way, leads the software development to success and may influence on the organization. The knowledge takes part of such a process as a way to help taking decisions. This research aimed to analyze the use of Knowledge Management techniques to the Risk Management in software projects development and the possible influence on the enterprise revenue. It had, as its main studying subject, Brazilian incubated and graduated software developing enterprises. The chosen research method was the Survey type. Multivariate statistical methods were used for the treatment and analysis of the obtained results, this way identifying the most significant factors, that is, enterprise's achievement constraining factors and those outcome achievement ones. Among the latter we highlight the knowledge methodology, the time of existence of the enterprise, the amount of employees and the knowledge externalization. The results encourage contributing actions to the increasing of financial revenue. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.