| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The software development activities are done in single office site: Changsha city)
Customer (Not Relevant: Most of the clients are government organisations. There are no difference in process execution for different customers.)
Size (Not Relevant: All projects are approximately of similar size. No difference in process due to size)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: It is not distinguishing in the methodology based on the organizational structure. Even though the company has different Business Units, the whole company used the same set of processes and methodology (with same two type of projects), so the organizational structure is not a relevant factor.)
Type of Work: Projects use two different software life cycles:Waterfall and iterative |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Waterfall (Type of Work): Software projects that follow Waterfall software development life cycle
Iterative (Type of Work): Software projects that follow iterative life cycle |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Waterfall projects
30 People, 6 Basic Units
– Waterfall
G2: Iterative Projects
24 People, 5 Basic Units
– Iterative |