Agile software development methods have been around since at least 2001. They accommodate changing requirements with the flexibility to deal with cost and scope and have increasingly been used. However, explicit risk management is often ignored as agile methods deal with risk intrinsically and focus on rapid value delivery. In certain contexts, explicit risk management practices are needed to complement agile methods. Thus, this paper presents a systematic literature mapping aiming to discover how do software organizations integrate explicit risk management practices into agile methods. As a result we found 23 primary studies that, in majority, applied case studies in the industry, using agile methods such as Scrum, and adapting agile practices such as Daily Meeting and Iteration Planning Meeting to manage risks related to schedule and communication, for example. The selected primary studies raise evidence that the introduction of explicit risk management practices bring benefits to agile methods.
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