| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The development center is located in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The NewSky’s major customers are banks.)
Size: Projects are divided by large (group>=15 number of people) and Small. We think that the size difference may trigger different management behavior since the project managers are required to take full-time to manage projects for large projects.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the projects are under the same management structure.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All projects are under the same proprietarily platform and developed using Java and C/ProC.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Large (Size): Large (Size): group>=15 number of people
Small (Size): Small (Size): group< 15=”” number=”” of=””> |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Large projects
77 People, 3 Basic Units
– Large
G2: Small projects
43 People, 5 Basic Units
– Small |