| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Projects are developed in Barcelona or Madrid, they are following same processes and location has not influence in the used processes.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customer does not have a significant influence on how processes are implemented or performed within the organizational unit. The customers are big companies and public administrations)
Size (Not Relevant: Organization use similar size in all the projects)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The used organizational structure is the same in all the projects)
Type of Work: It depends on the result of the work: is a new product or is an evolution maintenance of an existing product (a new version)
Methodology: They are using two kinds of work in function of the software development lifecycle: agile or waterfall ones |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
New Products (Type of Work): The result of the project are new products, they are following all the lifecycle phases (agile or waterfall) from customer requirements
Evolution Maintenance (Type of Work): From an existing product, the project results in an evolution of this. For this, they are following all the lifecycle phases from the requirements changes (or new requirements)
Agile (Methodology): Development software are using an agile methodology, in this organization SCRUM one.
Waterfall (Methodology): Projects are using the waterfall lifecycle |
| Subgroups: |
S1 New Products using Agile: Projects that follows in agile methodology for resulting in a new product
13 People, 1 Basic Units
– Agile
– New Products
S2 New Products using Waterfall: New products that are developed using the waterfall lifecycle
22 People, 2 Basic Units
– New Products
– Waterfall
S3 Evolutive maintenance using Waterfall: The result is an evolution of an existing product, and for developing the organization this new version of product is using waterfall lifecycle
34 People, 4 Basic Units
– Waterfall
– Evolution Maintenance |