A FRAMEWORK FOR RISK ASSESSMENT IN SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN GCC COUNTRIES

The past decade has been marked by rapid growth in the use of project management. Leading organizations across sectors and geographic borders have been steadily embracing project management as a way to control spending and improve project results. Software Project Management covers the total life cycle process involved in creating and managing a software system. It has been noticed that the international models are not of much significance to other parts of the planet like Middle East, in particular GCC countries. Hence the lack of customized project management and tools affects the quality of the end product and results to low client satisfaction. This leads to increase in the failure rate of the software projects in these countries. The software project management techniques / tools and metrics play an essential role to automate and accelerate the achievement of various project management elements applicable in planning, monitoring and controlling the projects.