| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The HQ in Rockville, MD is the primary location. The location is not a differentiation factor.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customers are divided into government and commercial customers. But for this appraisal the OU only cover the government customers. So the customer is not a differentiation factor.)
Size: The projects are divided into large (sized) projects and regular (sized) projects where the large projects are for projects with more than 25 FTE, and the regular projects are the projects with 25 FTE or less.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Even there are business units and multiple project teams, the OSSP is deployed across entire organization. So the management structure is not a differentiation factor.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All the projects are software development projects with similar development tools and programming languages.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Large (Size): Large projects with FTE > 25;
Regular (Size): Regular projects with FTE <> |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Subgroup of large projects
86 People, 2 Basic Units
– Large
G2: Subgroup of regular projects
33 People, 2 Basic Units
– Regular |