| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All team members are located in Xian, thus location is not relevant.)
Customer: The process used by team is mainly based on the customer domain types. There are four types of customers in four domains: Finance, Health Care, Circulation, and Education. The development phases used and quality objectives are set up by customers.
Size (Not Relevant: As only new software development projects are covered by the appraisal, in which customers provide a set of typically unrelated features for a software team to develop and each feature”s size is about same. Similar V-mode life cycle is used to develop each feature. Thus, size is not relevant.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The org structure is based on customer type, which is already included as a relevant factor, thus org structure is not relevant.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Only new software development projects are included in the appraisal, thus type of work is not relevant.) |