Risk management (RM) plays a key role in project management, as it allows identification
and prompt management of threats that may arise during project execution. Furthermore,
project management within the software industry is evolving rapidly nowadays, a fact that
implies new challenges, because the emergence and use of fresh approaches has brought
a greater degree of complexity to the RM process. The objective of this paper is to carry out a
systematic literature review (SLR) in the field of software risk, in an attempt to characterize …