| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not relevant beacuse all the projects are executed in Belo Horizonte facilities)
Customer (Not Relevant: Even though there are differences between internal and external customers, the methodology use the same solution for both types of customers)
Size (Not Relevant: Some adaptations of the standard processes and methodologies may be applied based on the size and total FTEs dedicated to the project / engagement but not significant impact since the large projects are broken down into iterations of similar size)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Is the same of Type of Work factor)
Type of Work: There are two differentiated type of projects with different team, one type is for maintaining and evolve a set of existing commercial products and project within the software factory that deliver services to internal and external clients. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
SwF (Type of Work): Projects managed according to “software factory” processes
PRODUCT (Type of Work): Projects related to product maintenance |
| Subgroups: |
PRODUCT: Projects to maintain and evolve commercial products of Spread
25 People, 3 Basic Units
– PRODUCT
SwF: Projects not related to product maintenance that follow an iterative lifecycle
47 People, 9 Basic Units
– SwF |