| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Although the OU has two sites, Vigo and Coruña, project teams may belong to any of the offices, working transparently.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Projects are developed with for creating applications for internal use at ABANCA.)
Size (Not Relevant: Only projects over 22 men*days are considered in the scope of the appraisal.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Structure is common for all the units, having a Unit Manager, a set of Project Managers and a team of technical people (Analysts and Developers).)
Type of Work: Development projects may follow one of the following approaches: Standard SDLC and the innovative approach of Scrum.
Platform: The development platform when using standard SDLC approaches result in three independent baselines: Legacy systems, Metropolis based systems and Data Warehouse Informational systems. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Standard SDLC (Type of Work): Projects following a waterfall life cycle
Scrum (Type of Work): Agile developments using Scrum
Legacy (Platform): Developments using PL/I, CICS, DB-2 and NSDK
Metropolis (Platform): Developments in Java using an Open Source environment
Data Warehouse (Platform): Informational Systems based on a Teradata platform |
| Subgroups: |
1. SDLC.Leg: Projects for building core-banking applications using PL/I, DB-2 and NSDK (Oficina 2000) fully developed by the internal team.
87 People, 8 Basic Units
– Standard SDLC
– Legacy
2. SDLC. Met: Projects for building core-banking applications using an Open Source architecture, formerly developed by Caixa Galicia, and in use today by ABANCA, based on Java and Oracle fully developed by the internal team.
217 People, 11 Basic Units
– Metropolis
– Standard SDLC
3. SDLC. DW: Projects for creating informational functionalities to the existing platforms, through the use of a Teradata based infrastructure.
45 People, 5 Basic Units
– Standard SDLC
– Data Warehouse
4. Scr: Projects developed using agile methodologies based on Scrum
55 People, 4 Basic Units
– Scrum |