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Crisis Management in Software Engineering: Behavioral Aspects

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Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications (SEDA 2016)

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 717))

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Abstract

Software projects failure rate is still high. It means that many projects experience crises and the managers have to deal with it. We believe that the human behavior is one of the main reasons that the projects fall into the crisis and one of the main drivers in mitigation process. In this paper we are not going to emphasize importance of a process in prevention and handling crises. Instead, we show that decisions that people make are at least as much important as process methodologies and techniques and helping employees make better decisions will benefit a company.

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Notes

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    Projects with an initial budget more than $15 million.

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    Further referred as ISD.

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    Since all the interviewees belong to the one side of the crisis and during the interview they had to talk about sensitive context, the researches note that the result might be biased. However, they state that this possible bias does not invalidate the case.

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Authors would like to thank David B. Root and Eduardo Miranda for teaching how to learn.

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  1. Innopolis University, 1, Universitetskaya Str., Innopolis, 420500, Russia

    Stanislav Litvinov & Vladimir Ivanov

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  1. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Ciancarini

  2. ‎Innopolis University, ‎Innopolis, Russia

    Stanislav Litvinov

  3. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Angelo Messina

  4. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Alberto Sillitti

  5. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Giancarlo Succi

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Litvinov, S., Ivanov, V. (2018). Crisis Management in Software Engineering: Behavioral Aspects. In: Ciancarini, P., Litvinov, S., Messina, A., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (eds) Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications. SEDA 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 717. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70578-1_17

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