| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Shanghai.)
Customer (Not Relevant: Customers of the organization are all factories of chemical industries. The OU provides same set of software system for all customers without discrimination.)
Size (Not Relevant: Project size does not significantly influence process implementation in the OU and is not considered a management factor.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU’s two physical departments are function-based. The development people are actually distributed in two relatively stable product teams across the two departments. Please refer to the factor “Product Team”.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: All software development works organized in two product teams, following same set of processes.)
Product Team: People in the OU are roughly separated into two relatively stable product teams. Each team is responsible for the development and maintenance of one software product. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Digital factory team (Product Team): Product team responsible for the development and maintenance of the software product Digital Factory System.
Smart work order team (Product Team): Product team responsible for the development and maintenance of the software product Smart Work Order System. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Digital factory team
16 People, 1 Basic Units
– Digital factory team
SG2: Smart work order team
13 People, 1 Basic Units
– Smart work order team |