| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Shijiazhuang.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Customers of the organization include government taxation agencies and enterprises distributed in almost all industries, but the OU provides same set of taxation and invoice related software system for all customers without discrimination.)
Size (Not Relevant: Project size does not significantly influence process implementation in the OU and is not considered a management factor.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is a middle size development team with no physical divisions inside. People in the OU are dynamically distributed in software projects.)
Type of Work: Generally, development works organized and managed as projects. Projects are divided into two types: one type focus on new system development, another type focus on upgrade and maintain a software system. OSSP is tailored for the two types of project. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
System Development Project (Type of Work): Software project that create a new software system.
System Maintenance Project (Type of Work): Software project that upgrade a current software system. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: System Development Project
18 People, 2 Basic Units
– System Development Project
SG2: System Maintenance Project
45 People, 6 Basic Units
– System Maintenance Project |