| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Single location (Ji’nan city, Shandong province, China). All BUs of OU are located in the same location. Therefor processes are not implemented differently.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Their customers are the mainly about the government, so the customer type does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Size (Not Relevant: All projects are of a similar, relatively small size and size is not used as a discriminating factor in process selection.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The organizational structure does not affect the development of the software products or processes implemented.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: They have development project and implementation project, but the implementation projects are excluded from the OU, so the type of work is not used as a discriminating factor in process selection.)
Type of Lifecycle: They classify the project lifecycle into waterfall and prototype + incremental, the work is done differently and the processes are implemented differently depending on the selected lifecycle model of the projects. |