| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Standard activities, they not depends on the geographical location. Moreover the unique location is Lisbon)
Customer (Not Relevant: The Development Team concept is to have standardised activities, not depending on the customers or business areas; sometimes, specific customers have specific adaptations that do not affect in a significant way the standard process)
Size (Not Relevant: Micro and Small type of projects have been explicitally excluded from the appraisal scope; the differences between Medium and Large type of projects are not so significant because are limited to some section of documents; all the management and engineering process are executed in the same way)
Organizational Structure: The technical aspects of the projects belonging to BPM, Intranet and GIS areas are different enough to derive significant differences especially in engineering PAs
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Only development projects have been included in the appraisal scope)
Re-use: Re-Use – there are significant differences in project management as well as in technical practices if a project uses or not Reuse practices during the TS activity |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
BPM (Organizational Structure): Projects with source in BPM area
GIS (Organizational Structure): Projects with source in SIG area
Intranet (Organizational Structure): Projects with source in Consultancy area This factor is not used in the remaining subgroup because: – This type of project does not admit the REUSE value Intranet – The subgroup Intranet/NoReuse has no projects and the past year also had no projects. So it has been excluded from the sample
Reuse (Re-use): Project with a significant level of code reuse
No-Reuse (Re-use): Projects with no or few level of code reuse |
| Subgroups: |
BPM-Reuse: Projects with source in BMP area with a significant level of code reuse
10 People, 4 Basic Units
– BPM
– Reuse
BPM no-Reuse: BPM type of projects with no architectural reuse of proprietary “basic products”
15 People, 5 Basic Units
– No-Reuse
– BPM
GIS no-Reuse: GIS type of projects with no architectural reuse of proprietary “basic products”
3 People, 1 Basic Units
– GIS
– No-Reuse
GIS Reuse: GIS type of projects with some level of architectural reuse of proprietary “basic products”
3 People, 1 Basic Units
– Reuse
– GIS |