| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All the work is done in the OU in Beijing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The enterprise customers of the OU have no special requirements on the procedures and templates used by the teams.)
Size (Not Relevant: The teams normally are made up of 8 to 10 persons and the team size has no impact to the processes and procedures used by the teams during their development.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the products are developed in the Software R&D Center.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The OU only developes embedded and MIS application products.)
Product Type: There are two types of products, mobile embedded financial application products and accounting MIS application products, developed in the Software R&D Center in the OU. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Mobile Embedded (Product Type): The mobile embedded products have some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the team to follow.
Accounting MIS (Product Type): The accounting MIS products have some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the team to follow as well. |
| Subgroups: |
Subgroup A: Product Type-MobileEmbedded
18 People, 2 Basic Units
– Mobile Embedded
Subgroup B: Product Type-AccountingMIS
30 People, 3 Basic Units
– Accounting MIS |