“…r Use of risk management in software projects-Generally, it is observed that there exists a lack of risk management in software projects using Scrum (Hijazi et al, 2012;Tomanek and Juricek, 2015), and software projects in general (Bannerman, 2008;Junior et al, 2012;Singh et al, 2012). r Software project success-Risk management can increase the chance of success in software projects (SEI, 2010;Chowdhury and Arefeen, 2011;Bannerman, 2015) by reducing their uncertainties and chances of failure (Wet and Visser, 2013). On the other hand, the absence of risk management procedures is one of the reasons for the failure of these projects (Charette, 2005;Dey et al, 2007;Lu et al, 2010).…”