| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All the work is done in the OU in Beijing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customers of the OU have no requirements to the procedures and templates for the teams to follow.)
Size (Not Relevant: The teams normally are made up of 15 persons and the team size has no impact to the processes and procedures used by the teams during their development.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The organizational structure is equivalent to the product type.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The OU only developed network application software products and network platform software products.)
Product Type: There are two types of software products which have some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the teams to follow respectively. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Network Application (Product Type): The network application product type has some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the teams to follow.
Network Platform (Product Type): The network platform product type has some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the teams to follow as well. |
| Subgroups: |
Subgroup A: Product Type-NetworkAPP
62 People, 4 Basic Units
– Network Application
Subgroup B: Product Type-NetworkPlatform
13 People, 1 Basic Units
– Network Platform |