| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All team members are located in Nanjing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Only Japanese customers are covered by this appraisal.)
Size: Team size is a factor. Less than 20 is considered small and bigger than or equal to 20 is considered large.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The org structure has no impact on process used, as the process used by a project is mainly based on the Lifecycle (development phases covered) and size. Each software group may have projects with different lifecycle and size.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Only software development work is covered by this appraisal.)
Lifecycle Covered: There are two types of lifecycles used by OU”s projects: DD to IT (Detailed Design to Integration Test) and DD to BUT (Detailed Design to Blackbox Unit Test) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Small (Size): Projects whose team size is less than 20 are considered small.
Large (Size): Projects whose team size is bigger or equal to 20 are considered large.
DD – BUT (Lifecycle Covered): DD-BUT represents projects whose lifecycle covers DD to BUT phases
DD – IT (Lifecycle Covered): DD-IT represents projects whose lifecycle covers DD to IT phases. |
| Subgroups: |
DBS: This subgroup includes projects whose lifecycle covering DD to BUT and size being small.
127 People, 6 Basic Units
– Small
– DD – BUT
DBL: This subgroup includes projects whose lifecycle covering DD to BUT and whose size is large.
143 People, 6 Basic Units
– DD – BUT
– Large
DIL: This subgroup includes projects whose lifecycle covers DD to IT and whose size is large.
130 People, 5 Basic Units
– Large
– DD – IT |