| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All Basic Units within the Product Research, Development, and Service Department as IT Service and R&D Departments perform their tasking at the Xi’an city site. As such, there are not differences in implementation in terms of location.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Customers The customers are scenic spots for the three projects. There is no difference based on customer for commercial businesses. Ro government.)
Size (Not Relevant: All projects are between 15 and 40 man-months and usually have 5-20 FTE. The duration of the projects are 3-6 months. The size difference is minimal and does not affect the way the projects implement the processes. This Sampling Factor is not relevant.)
Organizational Structure: projects are developed in different Departments: R&D Dept focuses on research and development, which excludes unit testing relying on Peer Reviews and Code Reviews for verification, combine User Requirement docs and software Requirements specifications, no unit test, combine acceptance and site testing. IT Svcs uses full development lifecycle with requirements, design, code peer reviews, unit testing, integration testing, internal validation testing, site acceptance testing
Type of Work (Not Relevant: ALL projects are using the standard Company EPG processes for both departments: Same type of work. This Sampling Factor is not relevant.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
R&D Dept (Organizational Structure): R&D Dept focuses on research and development, which excludes unit testing relying on Peer Reviews and Code Reviews for verification. They combine User Requirement docs and software Requirements specifications, perform design reviews, and combine acceptance and site testing using standard validation environment from the company.
IT Svcs (Organizational Structure): IT Svcs uses full development lifecycle with requirements, design, code peer reviews, unit testing, integration testing, internal validation, site acceptance testing |
| Subgroups: |
R&D: Two B/Us selected includes Testing, QA and CM people.
23 People, 3 Basic Units
– R&D Dept
IT Svcs: 1 B/U selected. Maintain and service on IT system and applications. Includes QA, CM and Testing personnel
13 People, 2 Basic Units
– IT Svcs |