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A principle objective of agile methods is to reduce well-known risks associated with common systems development project failures. While there is extensive academic literature on risk management and its growing importance, literature in relation to risk management in an agile context is still in infancy. The purpose of this research paper is to highlight the extent to which risk management practices are incorporated into a specific agile method known as DSDM. The methodology deployed for this research involved a case study of a change management consultancy firm dedicated to the use of the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM).

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  1. Business Information Systems Group, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, J.E. Cairnes Graduate School of Business and Economics, National Universtiy of Ireland Galway, Ireland
    Sharon Coyle & Kieran Conboy

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  1. Sharon Coyle
  2. Kieran Conboy

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
    Pekka Abrahamsson
  2. DIEE Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
    Michele Marchesi
  3. Agile Software Engineering/e-Business Engineering (ase/ebe) group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
    Frank Maurer

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Coyle, S., Conboy, K. (2009). A Study of Risk Management in DSDM. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Maurer, F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4\_18

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