| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The only location of the company is the city of Culiacan.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The company develops products, to be later commercialized as COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf), thus there are only internal customers.)
Size (Not Relevant: All teams are small (less than 5 people), and all projects are managed the same way (with sprints) regardless duration.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All projects are under the supervision of the Operations Manager.)
Type of Work: Two types of work are performed: (1) Hardware + Software Development; (2) Software only. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
HW+SW (Type of Work): Development of physical elements (hardware), and development of information technology systems (software) to deliver a full functionality.
SW (Type of Work): Development of information technology systems, creating functionalities such as communications, interfaces, databases, catalogs, among others. |
| Subgroups: |
HW+SW Projects: Projects which have the objective to build a product composed by hardware and the software to control it.
11 People, 5 Basic Units
– HW+SW
SW Projects: Projects to build information technology software systems.
9 People, 3 Basic Units
– SW |