| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Development projects are all in Guangzhou, it doesn”t affect the development process.)
Customer (Not Relevant: All the products developed for the other subsidiaries in the group. This doesn’t affect the development process.)
Size (Not Relevant: Size are similar and it doesn’t affect the development process.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Organizational structures are same in all of the projects and all of the projects are in same organization.)
Type of Work: There are two types of work which are Maintenance and new product development |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
New product (Type of Work): Projects develop new software system.
Maintenance (Type of Work): Projects develop new feature or enhance system based on exist product. |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Projects develop new software system.
18 People, 2 Basic Units
– New product
G2: Projects develop new feature or enhance system based on exist product.
15 People, 2 Basic Units
– Maintenance |