Risk factors that affect collaborative software development

This paper explores the concept of collaborative software development which involves multiple corporate units, often spanning national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. This raises new challenges and risks that can upset software development projects even when the usual risk factors are being controlled. This paper presents a framework that can be used to deal with collaborative software development projects, founded on a comprehensive set of risk management principles. Three risk factors confidence-building, corporate values, and information sharing have been identified through extensive study of literature and exploratory fieldwork and they constitute the core of this paper.