| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Nanjing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The OU has only one customer, Public Security Bureau and its agencies. All products are police affairs related management information system.)
Size (Not Relevant: Most of the project are moderate size. Size is not considered a critical factor in project management, although some minor tailoring to the OSSP base on project size may occur sometimes.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is a small development team with 30+ people distributed in software development projects dynamically.)
Type of Work: Generally, software development works organized and managed as projects. The lifecycle and processes between new product development and system upgrade are different for some activities. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
New System Development Project (Type of Work): Software project that creates a new software system for customer.
System Upgrade Project (Type of Work): Software project that updates an existing software system to a major new version. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: New System Development Project
19 People, 3 Basic Units
– New System Development Project
SG2: System Upgrade Project
13 People, 2 Basic Units
– System Upgrade Project |