Abstract: As one of the newly management theory risk management of software project has gained much attention. This paper first reviews the development process of software industry and software project risk management. Then the software project risk basic conception as well as the important software project risk management theory and the method are introduced. Through summarizing the relative research results obtained in the recent 30 years, we point out the three important research tendency of software project risk management. Based on which some future directions are proposed.

Key words: software project, Project management, risk

摘要： 近年来，软件项目风险管理作为新兴的管理理论，得到了国内外大批学者的青睐，并取得了一定的研究成果。本文首先回顾了软件行业及软件项目风险管理的发展历程。对软件项目风险的基本概念以及重要的软件项目风险管理理论和方法进行了介绍。然后综述了国内外学者近30年来在该领域取得的研究成果，总结出软件项目风险管理的三大研究趋势。并在此基础上提出了未来重点研究方向。

关键词: 软件项目, 项目管理, 风险