| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All software development work is done in the OU in Dalian.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The Customer types in the OU do not have impact to the processes and procedures used in the product and project development work.)
Size: The team sizes in the OU normally are classified as 2 levels. And the team size difference requires different tailoring and adoption to the processes and templates defined in the OU.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All SW related work is done in the Software R&D Department in the OU.)
Type of Work: The work types in the OU are all new product development type, and maintenance type for education and training software products. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Larger Team (Size): The large teams normal with about 10 persons need to follow different processes and template, tailoring and adoption than other smaller teams.
Smaller Team (Size): The small teams normal with 3-4 persons follow different processes and template tailoring and adoption than other sizes of teams.
All new product development (Type of Work): The all new product development based on customer requirements requires the teams to work according to different processes.
Maintenance type (Type of Work): The maintenance work type conduct maintenance, optimizing, and new updates to existence system according to client needs that require the teams to work according other different processes. |
| Subgroups: |
Subgroup A: Work Type-New DEV/Size-Larger
8 People, 1 Basic Units
– Larger Team
– All new product development
Subgroup B: Work Type-Maintenance/Size-Larger
10 People, 1 Basic Units
– Maintenance type
– Larger Team
Subgroup C: Work Type-Maintenance/Size-Smaller
10 People, 4 Basic Units
– Smaller Team
– Maintenance type |