Software Estimations Risk in Pakistan Software Industry
This work targets software project managers in Pakistan to reduce estimation failures, but it appears incremental as it focuses on applying known risk management concepts to a specific regional context.
The paper addresses how risks in the Pakistan software industry can impact software cost, effort, and resource estimates, and proposes mitigation strategies to improve project success.
Software and IT industry in Pakistan have seen a dramatic growth and success in past few years and is expected to get doubled by 2020, according to a research. Software development life cycle comprises of multiple phases, activities and techniques that can lead to successful projects, and software evaluation is one of the vital and important parts of that. Software estimation can alone be the reason of product success factor or the products failure factor. To estimate the right cost, effort and resources is an art. But it is also very important to include the risks that may arise in the in a software project which can affect your estimates. In this paper, we highlight how the risks in Pakistan Software Industry can affect the estimates and how to mitigate them.