| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The OU has one development location in Beijing. The factor “location” is irrelevant)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customers of the OU’s products or services are primary local contractors. The OU also develops standard products that are to be used by business units to address different customer/end user needs. For these types of development work, the customers are actually internal users. Although the different customers do affect the development processes applied, the differences are reflected by the factor “project type” described below. The factor “customer” is irrelevant)
Size (Not Relevant: The development projects in the OU are comparable in size and does not affects the development processes applied. The factor “Size” is irrelevant.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The projects are developed under the same development and supporting structure. The factor “Organizational Structure” is irrelevant)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The OU focuses on development effort only. The factor “Type of Work” is irrelevant)
Project Type: The OU has two basic types of projects: Product Projects and Contract Projects. Product projects are responsible for developing highly reusable products and platforms, which are then used by the contract project to address certain customer requirements. The processes of product projects are different with those of contract projects in the areas of RE, V&V, etc.. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Product Projects (Project Type): Projects that develop products or platforms that consist of common features to support the customized solutions development.
Contract Projects (Project Type): Projects that develop a solution according to specific contract with customers |
| Subgroups: |
Product Projects: Projects that develop platform or products that support the solution development in general.
40 People, 2 Basic Units
– Product Projects
Contract Projects: Projects that develop a solution according to specific contract with customers
54 People, 6 Basic Units
– Contract Projects |