| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Dalian.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The OU has only one customer, State Tax Administration and its agencies nationwide. All products are tax-refunding related software for this customer.)
Size (Not Relevant: Most of the project are moderate size. Size is not considered a critical factor in project management, although some minor tailoring to the OSSP base on project size may occur sometimes.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is a small development team with about 30 people distributed in software development projects dynamically.)
Type of Work: Generally, software development works organized and managed as projects. The lifecycle and processes between new product development and system upgrade are different for some activities. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Product Development Project (Type of Work): Software project that creates a new software product.
Product Upgrade Project (Type of Work): Software project that updates an existing software system to a major new version. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Product Upgrade Project
20 People, 3 Basic Units
– Product Upgrade Project
SG2: Product Development Project
9 People, 2 Basic Units
– Product Development Project |