| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All the SW application development projects only located in one location, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China)
Customer (Not Relevant: The only customer is Government. Although customer has different departments, the same standard processes are followed, only some minor tailoring is conducted based on customer needs.)
Size (Not Relevant: Project teams are devided into small agile teams, so size do not have siginificant impact on process definition and implmentation.)
Organizational Structure: There are 4 Business Units, each Business Unit focous on different business lines. The processes followed are influenced by the way it is structured. So it is a critical sampling factor.
Type of Work (Not Relevant: This appraisal only cover application development projects. So it is not a critical sampling factor.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Business Unit1 (Organizational Structure): SW Development Projects Under Digital Planning Business Unit
Business Unit2 (Organizational Structure): SW Development Projects Under Homeland and Sharing Service Business Unit
Business Unit3 (Organizational Structure): SW Development Projects under Digital Environment Protection Business Unit
Business Unit4 (Organizational Structure): SW Development Projects under Three-Dimension Application Business Unit |
| Subgroups: |
G1: SW Projects Under Business Unit1
31 People, 5 Basic Units
– Business Unit1
G2: SW Projects under Business Unit2
28 People, 6 Basic Units
– Business Unit2
G3: SW projects under Business Unit3
21 People, 3 Basic Units
– Business Unit3
G4: SW Projects under Business Unit4
12 People, 5 Basic Units
– Business Unit4 |