Software Estimations Risk in Pakistan Software Industry

TL;DR

This paper examines the impact of risks on software estimations in Pakistan's rapidly growing software industry and discusses mitigation strategies to improve project success.

Contribution

It highlights specific risks affecting software estimates in Pakistan and proposes methods to mitigate these risks for better project outcomes.

Findings

Risks significantly influence software project estimates.

Effective risk mitigation improves estimation accuracy.

Industry-specific challenges require tailored estimation approaches.

Abstract

Software and IT industry in Pakistan have seen a dramatic growth and success in past few years and is expected to get doubled by 2020, according to a research. Software development life cycle comprises of multiple phases, activities and techniques that can lead to successful projects, and software evaluation is one of the vital and important parts of that. Software estimation can alone be the reason of product success factor or the products failure factor. To estimate the right cost, effort and resources is an art. But it is also very important to include the risks that may arise in the in a software project which can affect your estimates. In this paper, we highlight how the risks in Pakistan Software Industry can affect the estimates and how to mitigate them.