| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Not relevant. Organization operates out of a signle location)
Customer: External and Internal customers. The projects for external customers are potential products that can be sold to institutions like schools etc. The internal customers are the in-house manufacturing facility of the organization
Size (Not Relevant: Not relevant. Size of project does not have any bearing on process implementation.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Not relevant. All projects within a single unit called R&D center following the same organizational processes)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Not relevant. The type of work is homogeneous.)
Business Platform Maturity: There are projects in the organization which fall under the category of New platform development where there is limited scope for reuse of artifacts and then there are projects categorised as MIS which build upon the existing platforms and offer significant scope for artifact reuse (specifically for requirements gathering and validation) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Internal (Customer): Projects for internal customers which constitutes the in-house product development unit of the organization
External (Customer): Projects for external government and telecom customers
Platform Development (Business Platform Maturity): New platform development which has limited scope for artifact reuse
MIS platform (Business Platform Maturity): Development on existing platforms where there is scope for artifact reuse |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Internal Projects | Platform Development
44 People, 5 Basic Units
– Internal
– Platform Development
G2: External | MIS Platform
9 People, 1 Basic Units
– MIS platform
– External |