| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Shenyang.)
Customer (Not Relevant: All customers are on-vehicle navigator manufacturers. The company provide same set of products for all customers without discrimination.)
Size: Team size is considered a management factor in the OU and cause process implementation tailoring. Most of the project teams are medium and small size.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The product development staff are distributed in multiple functional and development teams in two departments. The project team are formed across those teams and departments according their function and product module.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Almost all works are organized as development project that deliver a version of software product to the customer.)
Product Series: There are two product series or product lines depending on the format of navigation data used. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Large (Size): Team size > 50
Medium (Size): Team size between 10 – 50
Small (Size): Team size <>
NDS (Product Series): Products that using NDS format of navigation data.
MX-NDS (Product Series): Products that using MX-NDS format of navigation data. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: NDS, Large
120 People, 2 Basic Units
– Large
– NDS
SG2: MX-NDS, Medium
103 People, 5 Basic Units
– MX-NDS
– Medium |