| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not relevant as there is only one location (Hyderabad) where development takes place.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Not relevant as the customer does not influence the process followed.)
Size: Project team size are in the range of medium (8-15 FTE) to large ( >30 FTE)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not relevant. The organization is divided into overseas and domestic operations. The Organizational Unit consists of the delivery of services for domestic market and is organized as delivery of services on SAP and delivery of services on dotnet. Should the organizational unit undergo changes in number of locations or such other factors, its basic ability should be measured in terms of the processes which are specialized for these two platforms.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Not relevant as the projects scope to be investigated are of developmental work only)
Platform: The platform that is used for the projects.
SCOPE: The scope of work is either full development or a mix of development of change requests and some maintenance. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Medium (Size): Project size 5-15 FTE
Large (Size): Project size 20-40 FTE
SAP (Platform): Projects that are executed on SAP platform
MicroSoft Dotnet (Platform): Projects that are executed on Microsoft dotnet platform
Full development (SCOPE): Project scope consists of development work only
Mixed (SCOPE): Scope is a mixture of Change requests resulting in development and some minor fixes (maintenance). |
| Subgroups: |
Subgroup 1: SAP projects of full development
35 People, 1 Basic Units
– Large
– SAP
– Full development
Subgroup 2: SAP projects with a mixed scope of change requests and maintenance fixes.
14 People, 1 Basic Units
– Mixed
– Medium
– SAP
Subgroup 3: Microsoft dotnet projects with a scope of change requests and maintenance fixes
8 People, 1 Basic Units
– MicroSoft Dotnet
– Medium
– Mixed |