Chamundeswari Arumugam
ABSTRACT
Information Technology (IT) organizations are highly inspired to use the technological advancements in a rapid way to develop software products across different locations, irrespective of risk involved. Practitioners also readily grab the opportunities offered to showcase their talent, in spite of the difficulties they undergo. A global practitioner is exposed to risk in various phases of Global Software Development (GSD) due to the competitive environment he is in. Practitioner's risk affects the organization and is likely to result in project failure. Thus for successful completion of the project, it is essential to identify the risk in the various phases of GSD dynamically. This paper proposes a framework to dynamically assess the risk of the global practitioners using MultiAgent Simulation Model (MASM). Global practitioner agent and organizational agent are used in this work for risk assessment. This paper also explains a step-by-step risk assessment procedure. The risk level associated with each global practitioner is computed using two-valued binary logic and hence the risk associated with project completion is found using the probability equations.
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