| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The single office is located in Hangzhou and all projects are developed there. So Location is not a relevant factor.)
Customer (Not Relevant: There is only one type of customer: commercial customer. They may come from different industries, but no process is defined or executed by the industry. So customer is not a relevant factor.)
Size (Not Relevant: All projects are of similar size, within ten people in a team. And no variation of process definition or tailoring is observed by size. So size is not a relevant factor.)
Organizational Structure: There are two different teams under the OU responsible for two types of product development: container cloud and APM.
Type of Work (Not Relevant: There is only one type of work under the OU: software development. So type of work is not a relevant factor.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
CC (Organizational Structure): Container Cloud platform development team
APM (Organizational Structure): Application performance management(cloud monitoring) product development team |
| Subgroups: |
Container Cloud Team: The subgroup develops container cloud platforms.
20 People, 4 Basic Units
– CC
APM Team: The subgroup develops application performance management(cloud monitoring) products.
18 People, 4 Basic Units
– APM |