| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All projects are performed in one location in Jinan.)
Customer (Not Relevant: All clients are users of information technology in government departments and institutions.)
Size (Not Relevant: All projects in the organizational scope are of similar sizes as substantiated by their number of assigned resources.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Only one structure in the Software Development Department governs the development of software applications for the public service.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All projects consist of software development for public service management systems.)
Project Lifecycle: Projects can be carried out using the waterfall or scrum lifecycles. The scrum lifecycle has not been applied to project implementation in recent years. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Waterfall (Project Lifecycle): Projects carried out using the waterfall life cycle. All projects in the organizational unit currently use the waterfall lifecycle.
Agile (Project Lifecycle): No project has been carried out using the scrum life cycle in recent years. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Projects carried out using the waterfall life cycle.
48 People, 7 Basic Units
– Waterfall |