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Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Beijing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: All customers are government agencies of Ministry of Commerce, and the OU’s development and delivery activities and processes do not discriminate among customers.)
Size (Not Relevant: Project size does not significantly influence process implementation in the OU and is not considered a management factor.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is a small development team with about 30 people distributed in several functional groups, development group, test group, and management group.)
Type of Work: Generally, software development works organized and managed as projects. The lifecycle and processes between new system development and system upgrade are different for some activities. |