| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The OU has a unique office in the city of ZhuHai, province of Guangdong, China. All projects are working in the same location, so this is not a relevant sampling factor.)
Customer: There are two types of customers: government projects and non-government projects.
Size (Not Relevant: No effect on implementation. Each project has usually 6 project members.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: No effect on implementation. The scope of the appraisal is the Research and Development Center. The entire team of the OU belong to the same unit.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: No effect on implementation. All the projects are software development projects, are Java projects, and follow the same software life cycle.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
government projects (Customer): The client of this type of project is the Chinese government
non-government projects (Customer): The client of these type of projects is a non-government institution |
| Subgroups: |
government: projects for the Chinese government
10 People, 2 Basic Units
– government projects
non-government: projects for the non-government institutions
10 People, 2 Basic Units
– non-government projects |