| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Beijing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: There are various customers in different industries, but the OU provides same set of software products in same domain (information security) for all customers.)
Size (Not Relevant: Project and team size are all relatively small and medium, and do not significantly influence process implementation in the OU, and are not considered a management factor.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is a small software development team mainly in one physical department with some test staff involved functionally from another department. People of the OU are dynamically distributed into projects.)
Type of Work: All works of the OU are software development related works that are organized and managed as project. Some projects create or upgrade a software product, others customize a current product for specific customer. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Product Development Project (Type of Work): Software projects that create a new product or upgrade a product to a major version.
Product Customization Project (Type of Work): Software projects that customize a product based on specific customer requirements. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Product Development Project
13 People, 2 Basic Units
– Product Development Project
SG2: Product Customization Project
21 People, 3 Basic Units
– Product Customization Project |