| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All projects are developed in same office in Shanghai city, China)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customer does not have a significant influence on how processes are implemented or performed within the organizational unit. The product are software for automotive customer hardware, customer are always car producers)
Size (Not Relevant: Organization is using similar size in all the projects)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: For developing the projects, they are using the same organizational structure in Shanghai headquarter office)
Type of Work: There are working using processes with differences if they are working for creating new automotive products or they are maintaining existing ones |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Create (Type of Work): Creating new products for customers than satisfies their specific needs or a solution for different customers
Maintain (Type of Work): Develop new versions (evolutive maintenance) of existing products |
| Subgroups: |
S1 New Product: The result of the projects in this subgroup are new products for an specific or generic customer
16 People, 2 Basic Units
– Create
S2 New Version: The projects results are new versions of an existing product, the projects are software developments that they are evolutive or adaptive maintenances
7 People, 1 Basic Units
– Maintain |