| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The developers located in Weihai and Xian but they followed the same development process so it has no impact on the processes.)
Customer (Not Relevant: There are three kinds of customer: finance, logistics and retail industry customer, for customer involved process such as requirement elicits and product release, the customers believe the OU is more professional than them, so they would like to follow the same process which comes from the OU’s OSSP it has no impact on the processes.)
Size (Not Relevant: The project size is medium (6-12 people) and it has no impact on the processes.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: There three development department which responsible for different customer the same process they followed so it has no impact on the processes.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The type of work is product development and it has no impact on the processes.)
Lifecycle: There are two lifecycle used for project: waterfall and agile iteration, it has impact on plan and requirement related processes. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Waterfall projects (Lifecycle): Waterfall lifecycle is used for projects which requirement is stable.
Iteration projects (Lifecycle): Agile iteration lifecycle is used for projects which requirement is unstable. |
| Subgroups: |
Waterfall projects: Waterfall lifecycle is used for projects which requirement is stable.
128 People, 16 Basic Units
– Waterfall projects
Iteration projects: Agile iteration lifecycle is used for projects which requirement is unstable
56 People, 7 Basic Units
– Iteration projects |