| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: all work is performed in the same location (Beijing))
Customer (Not Relevant: customers do not impose any requirements that would require projects to modify their processes)
Size (Not Relevant: all projects have teams of approximately 15 to 25 people; team size does not influence process implementation)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: all projects are located within the same organization)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: all projects custom web-based information systems and follow the same engineering process)
Life-cycle Model: The state of the requirements at the start of a project may influence the project”s choice of life cycle model |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Waterfall & Incremental (Life-cycle Model): projects that have, at the start, requirements well defined for some subsystems and less well defined for other subsystems
incremental (Life-cycle Model): projects that develop and implement requirements on an incremental basis |
| Subgroups: |
WF Plus Incremental LCM: projects in which sub-project teams implement waterfall and incremental lifecycle models in parallel
23 People, 1 Basic Units
– Waterfall & Incremental
Incremental LCM: projects that implement the incremental lifecycle model
31 People, 2 Basic Units
– incremental |