| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Chengdu.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The products of the OU are management system for prison. All customers are prisons.)
Size: Projects (refer to “Type of Work”) of the OU are divided into 2 categories by size. Small-size projects follow simplified processes according to the tailoring guidelines of the OSSP.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is just a development team with 30+ people distributed in projects.)
Type of Work: Generally, software development works organized and managed as projects. Also some urgent defect-fix or enhancement to existing software system. Maintenance will not be included because it follows a very simple process, thus is less meaningful for the process improvement. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Large (Size): Project Effort > 30MM
Small (Size): Project Effort < 30=””>
Software Project (Type of Work): project that creates or upgrade a software system.
Maintenance (Type of Work): Task that fixes defects for the running software system. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Large, Software Project
13 People, 2 Basic Units
– Large
– Software Project
SG2: Small, Software Project
17 People, 3 Basic Units
– Software Project
– Small |