Analysis of Risk Factors in Global Software Development: A Cross-Continental Study Using Modified Firefly Algorithm

Table 7

MFA results and final risk ranking.

Risk name	Fitness score	Final rank
Failure to provide resources	0.999021549	1
Cultural differences of participants	0.998734905	2
Inadequately trained development team members	0.998606419	3
Inappropriate task timings	0.996822962	4
Cost overruns	0.995975017	5
Lack of balance on the project team	0.994580603	6
Inadequate technical resources	0.993205793	7
Sum of fitness values	17.56406956
Mean	0.975781642
Sum of all squared differences	0.025869716
Variance	0.001437206