| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All team members are located in Yantai, thus location is not relevant.)
Customer: There are three different types of customers: Internal, Power Industry, and transportation industry. There are some differences in process used for the three customer types.
Size (Not Relevant: Only development type of projects using complete lifecycle are included in the appraisal, thus size is not relevant.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The org structure has no impact on the process used as it is mainly decided by customer types.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The type of work is also decided by customer types, for example, product development is for internal customers and application development is for external customers (both in power industry and transportation). Since customer is already included as a relevant factor, thus the type of work is not relevant.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Internal (Customer): The targeted customer is internal users.
Power (Customer): The targeted customer type is users in power industry.
Tran (Customer): The targeted customers are in transportation industry. |
| Subgroups: |
Power: The subgroup includes the application development projects whose targeted customers are users in power industry.
140 People, 3 Basic Units
– Power
Transportation: The subgroup includes the application development projects whose targeted customers are users in transportation industry.
53 People, 5 Basic Units
– Tran
Internal: The subgroup includes the projects that are for product development and targeted users are internal.
62 People, 5 Basic Units
– Internal |