| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not Relevant. All 3 projects are in the same location (Chongqing), there is no process difference since they all follow the same processes after tailoring.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customer for 3 projects are all with the same car manufacturing company (China Chang”an Automobile Group Co., Ltd.) with no process difference between different projects since they all follow the same processes which are aligned with product development stages and customer main life cycle stages.)
Size (Not Relevant: Projects are with similar size in terms of FTE and all follow same processes after tailoring.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All 3 projects are within R&D Center, there is no significant process differences after tailoring with regard to engineering processes and also with management processes since the Project Department provides same management processes to all projects.)
Type of Work: There are 2 types of work: New Development, and Feature Enhancement. New development is the development of product for new customer, where feature enhancement is the enhancement of existing functionalities for current customer. This creates differences in processes of requirement development, design, integration and testing, and baseline. |