  Software and IT industry in Pakistan have seen a dramatic growth and success
in past few years and is expected to get doubled by 2020, according to a
research. Software development life cycle comprises of multiple phases,
activities and techniques that can lead to successful projects, and software
evaluation is one of the vital and important parts of that. Software estimation
can alone be the reason of product success factor or the products failure
factor. To estimate the right cost, effort and resources is an art. But it is
also very important to include the risks that may arise in the in a software
project which can affect your estimates. In this paper, we highlight how the
risks in Pakistan Software Industry can affect the estimates and how to
mitigate them.
