| 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: Their customers are mainly financial institutions, 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 size, but the size is not used as a discriminating factor in process selection.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Each group within the OU is involved in the specific work at different stages of the project, so the organizational structure does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: They have development project and implementation project, but the implementation projects are excluded from the OU, so the type of work is not used as a discriminating factor in process selection.)
Type of Lifecycle: They classify the project lifecycle into waterfall and iteration, the work is done differently and the processes are implemented differently depending on the selected lifecycle model of the projects. |