| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: All projects are located in Guangzhou and the processes that are used are the same in the same location.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: Customers Have no input into the processes that are used to develop the basic units and therefore do not affect the way processes are executed)
Size (Not Relevant: Not Relevant: The process is the same for all projects regardless of size, meaning size does not matter.)
Organizational Structure: All projects are within Software Development Department or the Product Development Department. The basic unit projects are developed differently depending on what Department they are developed in/for.
Type of Work: Relevant: Projects are categorized as generic product development for industry consumption or customized projects development based on specific customer’s requirements.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Product Development Department (Organizational Structure): this value represents those basic units developed in the Product Development Department.
Software Development Department (Organizational Structure): This value represents the basic units that are developed in the Software Development Department
Industry Generic Products (Type of Work): This Type of Work is for a particular industry, not for a particular customer.
Customer Specific products (Type of Work): Projects are customized projects per specific customer requirements. |
| Subgroups: |
S1: This Subgroup contains the Basic Units that are developed in the Product Development Department and are Industry Generic Products.
62 People, 4 Basic Units
– Product Development Department
– Industry Generic Products
S2: This Subgroup contains the Basic Units that are developed in the Software Development Department and are Customer Specific products.
25 People, 2 Basic Units
– Customer Specific products
– Software Development Department |