| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Single location (Beijing, China). All BUs of OU are located in the same location. Therefor processes are not implemented differently.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customer of the OU are mainly in the pan-financial sector, so the customer type is single and does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Size (Not Relevant: They classify the projects into Large and Small to Medium size, but the size is not used as a discriminating factor in process selection.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The organizational structure does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Type of Work: Type of work is relevant. The work is done differently depending on the type of work. The processes are implemented differently depending on the type of work performed. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
New Development Project (Type of Work): The New Development Project mainly refers to the new construction work effort of the application software systems.
Upgrade Project (Type of Work): The Upgrade Project mainly refers to the upgrading and optimization work effort for the application software systems. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: SG1 can be considered as software products independent research and development group.
35 People, 6 Basic Units
– New Development Project
SG2: SG2 can be considered as software projects implementation group.
28 People, 5 Basic Units
– Upgrade Project |