| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The R&D Center is located in Shenzhen China. The OU has no other R&D Center in other location. The location has no impact on process.)
Customer (Not Relevant: There is a standard process of requirement communication in the group. All the development process for all the customers is the same. “Customer” has no impact with their development process.)
Size (Not Relevant: All the projects in different size are running in same process. There is no difference in the process of the projects with different size. All of the projects are 3-6 months and 6-10 staffs and the number of functions in projects are similar. “Size” has no impact with their development process.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the projects are conducted under R&D Center. “Organizational structure” has no impact with their development process.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All the projects are customized development. “Type of Work” has no impact with their development process.)
Type of Products: There are 2 types of the products: one is “hardware+ software” product; one is software product. Each type of product has different development process. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Hardware + Software (Type of Products): This kind of product include hardware and software providing temperature and humidity control to satisfy the customers.
Software (Type of Products): This kind of product is to help the customers remote maintain/monitor/deploy/ the application servers. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: This kind of product include hardware and software providing temperature and humidity control to satisfy the customers.
18 People, 3 Basic Units
– Hardware + Software
SG2: This kind of product is to help the customers remote maintain/monitor/deploy/ the application servers.
12 People, 2 Basic Units
– Software |