| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not relevant. All projects are in the same place-Fuzhou.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Not relevant. The company has only one kind of customers, the electric power corporations. The works are done in the same way, and no notable difference.)
Size (Not Relevant: Not relevant. The process implementation is the same regardless the size of projects currently in the target organization, because the size of the projects in the organization are similar, there is not extremely small or large projects.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: The target organization has a uniform structure, and there is no difference in process implementation related to organizational structure.)
Type of Work: Relevant. The target organization have development projects and Function enhancement/maintenance projects. They have some differences in requirement development and verification processes. The development projects usually use waterfall methodology, while function enhancement/maintenance projects may adopt Agile methodologies. |