| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Single location (Jinan city, Shandong province, China). All BUs of OU are located in the same location. Therefor processes are not implemented differently.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Their customers are the mainly about the schools, insurance companies, government departments, etc. but the customer type does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Size (Not Relevant: All projects are of a similar, relatively small size and size is not used as a discriminating factor in process selection.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The organizational structure does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Type of Work: Type of work is relevant. The work is done differently depending on the type of work. The processes are implemented differently depending on the type of work performed. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Software Development Project (Type of Work): The software development project mainly refers to the new construction work effort of the application software systems.
Upgrade Project (Type of Work): The upgrade project mainly refers to the upgrading and optimization work effort for the application software systems. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: SG1 can be considered as software products independent research and development group.
10 People, 2 Basic Units
– Software Development Project
SG2: SG2 can be considered as software projects implementation group.
12 People, 2 Basic Units
– Upgrade Project |