| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All projects are developed in Hangzhou office. Location is not a relevent factor.)
Customer: There are two types of customer served by the OU: government agencies and commercial customers. The government projects are newly developed, however, the commercial projects are continuously enhanced and maintained. Process as RD, PI and VAL varies from each other.
Size (Not Relevant: All projects are of similar size in terms of team size or effort, around 10-20 people in a team. In the OU, no process variances are observed due to size. So size is not a relevant factor.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All products are developed under R&D Department. So organizational structure is not a relevant factor.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: There is only one type of work executed under the OU: software development. So this is not a relevant factor.) |