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Hello,

You are invited to participate in our survey, “Identifying the effect of risk management framework for software development projects”. You will be asked to complete a survey that asks questions about Risk management in your project. It will take approximately [less than 10] minutes to complete the questionnaire.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. There are no foreseeable risks associated with this project. However, if you feel uncomfortable answering any questions, you can withdraw from the survey at any point. It is very important for us to learn your opinions.

Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. Kindly note this is NOT an evaluation of the organization. It focuses on the project, not the organization. Your information will be coded and will remain confidential. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact [Divya Unni] by phone at +44(0)7507895103 or by email at [email protected].

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Background Information
 
 
Please indicate your age group:
 
21 - 30 years
 
31 - 40 years
 
41 - 50 years
 
51 - 60 years
 
Other (Please specify)
 
 
 
Please select your gender:
 
Male
 
Female
 
 
Please indicate your professional qualification:
 
Doctor
 
Master
 
Bachelor
 
Other
 
 
Please indicate your position at the organization:
 
Junior/Associate Software Engineer
 
Software Engineer
 
Senior Software Engineer
 
Project Manager
 
Management staff
 
Other (Please specify)
 
 
 
Length of Service
 
Below 2 years
 
2-5 years
 
5-10 years
 
10 and above
 
 
Please indicate the level of education in Risk management
 
None
 
Some
 
Moderately
 
Plenty
 
 
 
Risk Management Infrastructure
 
 
Please select the following attributes of the risk management mandate defined at the beginning of the project (Select all that apply)?
 
Objectives
 
Scope
 
Risk management authority
 
Accepted risks
 
Risk management procedures
 
Stakeholders

 
 
Please indicate what guidelines are used for your project work (Select all that apply)?
 
Project Plans
 
Project management software
 
Audits and walkthroughs
 
Project evaluation (post mortem)
 
Other
 

 
 
Please select the tools and techniques used for risk management in your project (Select all that apply)
 
Documentation Reviews
 
Information gathering techniques (Root cause Analysis, SWOT etc)
 
Checklist analysis
 
Assumptions analysis
 
Diagramming techniques (eg. Cost and effect diagram)
 
Other
 

 
 
 
Please indicate the type of risks identified during risk assessment phase? (Select all that apply)
 
Misunderstanding the requirement
 
Introduction of new technology
 
Failure to manage user end experience
 
Changing scope/objectives
 
Insufficient/inappropriate staffing
 
Lack of required knowledge/skills in the project personnel
 
Artificial deadlines
 
Bad estimation
 
Other
 

 
 
 
Dealing with Risk
 
 
Please specify if the data collection and data retention procedures have been briefed to you? (How to collect data, data definition, retention periods etc.)
 
No
 
Only the data retention procedures
 
Only the data collection procedures
 
Yes the data collection and retention procedures
 
I do not know
 
 
Are tools for automating data collection and data analysis planned? (data entry tools, automated tool for data validation, statistical analysis tools, query tools)
 
No
 
A few tools for data collection
 
A few analysis tools
 
Yes, data analysis and collection tools
 
I do not know
 
 
As a method of prioritizing risk, a consolidated list of risk is created in your project?
 
Agree
 
Disagree
 
I do not know
 
 
Please indicate the risk prioritization scale used in your project?
 
High, Medium, Low
 
Essential, Conditional, Optional
 
All of the above
 
None of the above
 
Other
 
 
 
 
Please indicate how risks are handled in your project once the risk is analysed (Select all that apply)?
 
Risk acceptance (no action is taken to counter the risk, the impacts are accepted.)
 
Risk prevention (attempts are made to prevent the risk event from occurring at all)
 
Risk mitigation (this strategy reduces the probability of the risk event occurring)
 
Risk research (additional information is obtained)
 
Risk transfer (the risk is passed on to other persons, groups or organizations)
 
Other
 

 
 
Please specify the risk monitoring techniques used in your project?
 
Risk Meetings (formal risk review meetings where people have time to stop and think about risks)
 
Risk Owner (Ensure all risks have an owner, even if there is no active management plan for them)
 
Triggers (Identify triggers for reviewing risks)
 
I do not know
 
Annually
 
Other
 
 
 
 
Please indicate who is responsible for monitoring risk in your project?
 
Management
 
Project Managers
 
Team/Tech Leads
 
Software Developers
 
All of the above
 
Other
 
 
 
 
Conclusion
 
 
The impact of having goals defined in your project has helped to manage and review risks to a good extend?
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Undecided
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
 
 
The impact of risk management in your project has helped to identify, estimate, manage and review risks to a good extend?
 
Strongly agree
 
Agree
 
Undecided
 
Disagree
 
Strongly disagree
 
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