| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The development center is located in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The NewSky’s major customers are banks.)
Size: Projects are divided by large (project workload >=100 person-month) and Small. We think that the size difference may trigger different management behavior since the project managers are required to take full-time to manage projects for large projects.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the projects are under the same management structure.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All projects are under the same proprietarily platform and developed using Java and C/ProC.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Large projects (Size): Projects with effort >= 100 person-month
Small projects (Size): Projects with effort < 100=””> |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Large projects
39 People, 2 Basic Units
– Large projects
G2: Small projects
71 People, 5 Basic Units
– Small projects |