| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: All projects are working in the same location in Beijing, so this is not a relevant sampling factor.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: All projects are working for the same cusmtomer type: users of financial information systems.)
Size (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: The projects do not significantly differ in size, so this is not a relevant sampling factor.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: All projects are working under the same organization and management structure, so organizational structure is not a relevant sampling factor.)
Type of Work: The projects are of 2 types: development and maintenance projects. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Development (Type of Work): These projects are developing new systems or new functionality.
Maintenance (Type of Work): These projects do maintenance on delivered systems. Small development tasks can exist here also. |
| Subgroups: |
1 – Development: The projects that have development work.
63 People, 4 Basic Units
– Development
2-Maintenance: Doing maintenance.
28 People, 3 Basic Units
– Maintenance |