| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not relevant. The work is performed in one place)
Customer: A difference exists (especially focused in management processes) between projects for the Public Administration and the rest of customers • Public Administration – PA (Customer): Projects development for local administration: region, district and town hall • No Public Administration – NOPA (Customer): Projects developed for any other type of customer besides PA
Size (Not Relevant: The methodology and process applied are the same for any size of project)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not relevant all project have similar organizational structure)
Type of Work: There is a 1 to 1 correspondence between Project Type and technology. Turned-key type of projects can be based on Java or .Net technology • Java (Organizational Structure): Development projects based on Java technology • .NET (Organizational Structure): Development projects based on .NET technology |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
PA (Customer): Public Administration
NO PA (Customer): No Public Adminstration Private Customers sector
Java (Type of Work): Java Development Projects
.Net (Type of Work): Dot NEt based development projects |
| Subgroups: |
PA-JAVA: JAVA Development projects for Public Administration
30 People, 22 Basic Units
– PA
– Java
PA-.NET: .NET Development projects for Public Administration
8 People, 7 Basic Units
– .Net
– PA
NO PA-.NET: .NET Development projects for Private Customers
6 People, 16 Basic Units
– NO PA
– .Net |