| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All projects are located in a same office area)
Customer (Not Relevant: Managements supply product concepts and requirement and launch development projects.)
Size (Not Relevant: Project size varies in a limited scope)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Matrix management strategy is adopted)
Type of Work: There are two types of work, i.e. new product development and secondary development. Project complexity maybe affected by work types. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
New product development (Type of Work): Projects that develop new products
Secondary development (Type of Work): Projects that develop products based on existing codebase |
| Subgroups: |
S Group: Projects that develop products based on existing codebase
16 People, 2 Basic Units
– Secondary development
N Group: Projects that develop new products
43 People, 4 Basic Units
– New product development |