Customer (Not Relevant: Not a relevant factor. The US government is the appraised organization’s primary customer. There are no meaningful differences in practice implementation as a function of customer type (US Department of Defense vs US Department of State vs US Department of Homeland Security vs Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).)

Size (Not Relevant: Not a relevant factor. No meaningful differences in practice implementation resulting from differences in project size have been observed. The organizational unit is defined to exclude programs with less than a specified number of fulltime equivalent staff.)

Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not a relevant factor. All of the programs in the appraised organization (heritage Technology Services) were realigned to NGDS on 01 January 2020 and are now part of their new sector’s management reporting structure. These programs collectively are adopting NGDS processes, but no meaningful differences in practice implementation have yet occurred or will occur during 2020.)

Type of Work (Not Relevant: Not a relevant factor. All projects in the OU perform software development beginning from existing baselines.)

Development Methodology: Relevant factor. Some programs in the organizational unit use a hybrid Agile methodology while other programs in the organizational unit use a traditional (“waterfall”-like methodology). The appraised organization includes both types of programs.

Traditional (Development Methodology): Traditional (non-Agile) development methodology is used.

Hybrid Agile development programs: This subgroup consists of all projects and support functions that use hybrid Agile development methodologies.
1077 People, 35 Basic Units
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