Table 3: Risks related to process entity.
Process Entity Level
Design Phase Turbulence • Hesitation or resistance among employees and managers
Decomposition • How to decompose a high-level project into several atomic tasks
• High inter-dependency among tasks
• Complex mini tasks
• Low product architecture maturity
Engagement Phase Communication • Lack of clear communication
• Lack of copilot to coordinate workers
• Coordinate many workers to work together is hard for big project
• Untimely reply in the forum
• Lack of communication tools and ineffective communication
• Language barrier and culture difference
Schedule • In-house development delay for waiting crowdsourcing submissions
• Low quality submission task and starvation task need to be reposted
Commitment Phase Intellectual Property • Ownership disputes
• Code plagiarism
• Malicious or harmful code submission