| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Single location, Guangzhou)
Customer (Not Relevant: Focus customers – Local private and government sectors.)
Size (Not Relevant: The projects are using the same standard processes.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All works are performed at the OU level)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All works are software development)
Software Development Life Cycle: Projects are classified by development life cycles into: – Waterfall – Iterative |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Waterfall (Software Development Life Cycle): Waterfall development life cycle projects
Iterative (Software Development Life Cycle): Iterative development life cycle projects |
| Subgroups: |
A: Waterfall development life cycle projects
23 People, 3 Basic Units
– Waterfall
B: Iterative development life cycle projects
16 People, 2 Basic Units
– Iterative |