Intended for software managers, developers, and practitioners, this volume describes how the application of risk management strategies can help the development process run on time and on budget. Covers the identification of potential threats associated with software development; establishing an effective risk management program; applying risk management; the pros and cons of software and organizational maturity; software metrics approaches used to measure software quality; and procedures for implementing a successful metrics program. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Industrial Espionage: Industrial Espionage and Other Major Risks.
Malicious Computer Viruses. Low Position on the CMM. Software Engineering:
Software Maturity. Organizational Maturity. Software Metrics: Metrics in Risk
Management. Metrics in Various Maturity Models. Metrics in Capability
Maturity Model. Metrics in Orange Book. Other Metrics Approaches. Security:
Risk Analysis Methodologies. Risk Management Methodologies. Process Maturity
Models: Risk Analysis Methods. Risk Management Methodologies. Asset
Valuations: Basic Asset Categories. Customized Asset Categories. Asset
Valuations. Security Threats: Security Threat Categories. Sample Data Sheets.
Security Controls and Tests: Vulnerability Examples. Security Control and
Test Categories. Sample Data Sheets on Vulnerabilities. Safeguards: Two
Safeguard Scenarios. Safeguards. Sample Data Sheets on Safeguards. Economic
Analysis: Algorithms Mathematical Values. Savings Justification. Return on
Investments. Safeguard Worksheets. Reiterative Processes: Existing
Approaches. Proposed Approaches. Automated Risk Management. Issues of
Reiteration Limits. Sample Data Sheets.
Judy Myerson earned her M.S.E.E. in computer and information sciences from an ivy league university. She is a computer/software engineer, a technical writer and consulting editor of computer manuals, technical reports, and textbooks. She has written numerous articles on data language and processing technologies for national trade publications.
