| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: No process difference with project locations. One location, Hefei city Anhui province.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Because all customers are in the same kind of business i.e., health information, so there is no influence on the process implementation.)
Size (Not Relevant: No difference in practice implementation because all projects have similar size.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: One organization structure. All projects are under same command chain.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All projects are software development.)
Product line: Practice implementation is different with the product line in which the system to be developed in the project is located and derived. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Information system (Product line): This project develops an information system for health organizations including public health management and government administration management.
Health integration machine (Product line): This project develops a system based on “Health integration machine” which is used by Public Health Management Offices. |
| Subgroups: |
SUB1: This project develops an information system for health organizations including public health management and government administration management.
12 People, 2 Basic Units
– Information system
SUB2: This project develops a system based on “Health integration machine” which is used by Public Health Management Offices.
11 People, 2 Basic Units
– Health integration machine |