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Project characteristic Agile Home Ground Hybrid Home Ground Functional requirements characteristics • Tactical application
Supportability
Criticality
Integration Technology IT team size
• Proof of concept / “throwaway code” • Nonessential application • Public data only • Internal access only • No safety risks
• Strategic application
• High future investment • Mission-critical application • Protect sensitive/confidential data • Facing public Internet • Impacts human safety
• No regulations or auditability – Subject to regulation or audit • Software integrates or interfaces with • Software operates in isolation many other systems from other systems
• Continuing to use existing, proven technologies
• New approaches (e.g., web services) • New tech to team, prove, or update
• Integrate with existing tech stack Team characteristics • Less than ten team members • Many team members
• Single team • Single location (single room)
• Common language and IT team locations culture
IT team need for new skills
Customer team size and diversity
• Team all from the same organization • Strong technology skills
• Strong, existing project approach
• Long-standing, cohesive team • Single product owner or SME
• Single department and function
• Organized into multiple teams • Multiple locations and time zones • Multiple languages and cultures • Multiple organizations
• New, unfamiliar technologies • Adopting new project approach • Multiple new team members • Multiple product owners or SMEs • Multiple departments or functions
Project characteristic Agile Home Ground Hybrid Home Ground Functional requirements characteristics • Customers in single location • Multiple locations, time zones, languages, and cultures • Single version of requirements
• Requirements vary significantly
5.5 Using Radar Charts to Plot Project Characteristics
The key idea of the Home Grounds Model is that agile and hybrid projects work best with diametrically opposed software project characteristics. However, few software projects will exactly match cithcr the Agile Homc Ground or the Hybrid Homc Ground. The clear majority will be a mixture of both.
5.5.1 Understanding the Project Characteristics Radar Chart