Plenary Lecture

A Risk Management Model for Software Project Management

Professor Khairuddin Hashim

Department of Software Engineering,
Tenaga Nasional University
MALAYSIA

Email: Khairuddin@uniten.edu.my

Abstract: Risk management is an important element in software project management due to increase in budget investments of software development projects and stiff business competition requiring urgent deadlines. The presentation will discuss a risk management model to support software project management that includes risk identification, risk analysis, risk prioritization, risk monitoring and risk control. The model incorporates problem analysis of historical data of projects which gives a good basis for risk projection of future projects.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Khairuddin is currently professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Tenaga Nasional University, Malaysia. He graduated with a Ph.D. in computing science from the University of Bath, United Kingdom, in 1989. His has research interest, publications and international conference presentations on requirements engineering, software reuse, software risk management, software project management, human computer interaction and adaptive learning.

Dr. Khairuddin has over 20 years experience in academia spread over three academic institutions - University of Malaya, Tun Abdul Razak University and Tenaga Nasional University. He was a visiting professor at McGill University in 1995 and a research scholar at Kyoto University in 1993. Dr. Khairuddin was consultant for SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) in 2003. He was also a member of several international conference paper committees. He held top level administrative university posts such as Deputy President (Academic), Vice President (Technology) and Dean of Faculty.

Apart from university related work, Prof. Dr. Khairuddin is/was also involved in being: panel member of Open System Expert Group for the Public Sector, Chief Editor of the Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Software Engineering Consultant to Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS), panel assessor for DAGS (Demonstrator Application Grant Scheme) for National IT Council, panel assessor for the Industry Research and Development Grant Scheme (IGS), member of Expert Group Service Sector (Information Technology) for IRPA (Intensified Research in Priority Areas), MSC Research & Development Grant Scheme Technology Assessment Consultant, Science Fund ICT Assessor and TechnoFund ICT Cluster Technology Assessment Consultant.