| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only have one location, Nanjing, China.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Customer has not significant impact on project development. Because customers only give them specific requirements based on company’s mature product or platform)
Size (Not Relevant: Size does not have any significant impact on how work gets done because agile methodology is widely implemented.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the group in R&D center follow the same Agile development process.)
Type of Work: There are 2 groups responsible for different software development: project group, platform group. Some processes (e.g. requirement process) are customized based on domain characteristics of each department. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Project, New (Type of Work): Develop projects for the customers with specific requirements
Platform, New (Type of Work): Develop platform used by company’s projects |
| Subgroups: |
SG-1: The projects under project group
46 People, 12 Basic Units
– Project, New
SG-2: The projects under platform group
8 People, 1 Basic Units
– Platform, New |