| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Development projects are all in Dongguan, it doesn”t affect the development process.)
Customer (Not Relevant: All the products developed for the enterprises. Doesn’t affect the development process.)
Size (Not Relevant: Size are similar and it doesn’t affect the development process.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Organizational structures are same in all of the projects and all of the projects are in same organization.)
Type of Work: There are two types of work: 1.Product development. 2.Customization. Some projects develop standardized products based on market requirement analysis. Some projects provide customized software development service based on the standard software products. The process of customization projects is most likely tailored from the product development process. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Product development (Type of Work): Develop standard product based on market requirement analysis.
Customization (Type of Work): Customized software development based on existed standard products and customer requirements. |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Standardized products development projects.
16 People, 2 Basic Units
– Product development
G2: Customized projects based on standardized products.
15 People, 3 Basic Units
– Customization |