| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not relevant. As the projects are managed out of Bologna, Italy with teams some of which are distributed across Bologna, Bratislava (Slovakia) and Pune (India) but work without any boundary.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Not relevant. Only one customer insists on use of their templates, for most of the documents and that infuences the life cycle, and is captured under factor – SDLC)
Size: Relevant. The size of development effort involved for the project.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not relevant – as the entire organization is expected to follow the same process with applicable tailoring.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Not relevant. All projects are of development type.)
SDLC: The development life-cycle employed in the project. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Small (Size): These are projects that are less than effort size of 500 person days.
Large (Size): These are projects that are more than 500 person days of development effort
Overlapping waterfall (SDLC): This is traditional waterfall methodology tailored within the organization
Spiral (SDLC): This is Spiral development method
Template Based (SDLC): This is used for a particular customer – traditional waterfall with defines set of deliverables to the customer adhering to the templates given by the customer which infuences the homegrown waterfall method |
| Subgroups: |
Olap-Small: This subgroup consists of projects that use Overlapping waterfall SDLC and are small development effort
19 People, 4 Basic Units
– Small
– Overlapping waterfall
Spiral-Large: This subgroup consists of projects that use Spiral SDLC and are of large development effort
24 People, 2 Basic Units
– Spiral
– Large
Template-Small: These are template based SDLC and of small effort size
20 People, 3 Basic Units
– Small
– Template Based
Template-Large: The group of projects that use template based SDLC and are of large effort size
14 People, 2 Basic Units
– Template Based
– Large |