A Study Pertaining to the Barriers in Assessing the Outsourcing Risk Factors in Sri Lankan Software Industry

Among many papers which have been published for many years more research has been done on software outsourcing risk management and mitigation; but barriers which affects risk assessment has been left aside creating a void. With reference to existing literature six factors were identified and this paper will validate its applicability and operational ability in the domestic software industry. Complexity of the undertaken project, Contractual complications between the vendor and the service provider, project execution mechanisms, financial models adopted, legal framework of the country and the organizational cultures were these main six components which wre subjected to the study. Study is based on all the SLASSCOM registered companies in Sri Lanka which are involved in the software operational outsourcing business.