02-generalFactors.md

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title: "Understanding the factors that may affect your modeling"
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Review in broad strokes the factors that may affect how you model your organization, project or collaboration. Explore some real-world examples.

## What are the most common factors for grouping people in your organization

There are many ways to group people in your organization. For tools like Membership Management Services, there are several common factors to consider:

1. Where does the data about the person come from - also known as "Systems of Record"
2. What are the conditions under which individuals gain or loose access to resources or services
3. Logical groups like departments, projects, or teams

## How does grouping work in COmanage

COmanage is a multi-tenet tool. This means that for each installation, one or more top-level groups can be expressed. These groups are called Collaborative Organizations or COs. Individuals are added to these fundamental groups (COs), but once there, the individuals can be included in multiple sub groups of the CO, called Collaboration Organization Units (or COUs.)

## Consideration factors

**Will need to do an updated version of the [CO Requirements Assessment tool](https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/COmanage/CO+Requirements+Assessment)**