| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All team members are located in Shenzhen, thus, location is not relevant.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The OU is Shenzhen Stock Exchange”s internal IT center, thus, customer is not relevant.)
Size: Projects with effort exceeding 200 man day is considered large, otherwise is small.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: Nearly all projects are located in Engineering Dept, and the org structure has no impact on process used.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: Only software development work is considered, thus type of work is not relevant.)
Delivery Mode: There are two delivery mode: fixed (two – four weeks) release and planned releases.
Development Mode: Waterfall and Agile are the two development modes used in the OU. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Large (Size): Projects whose effort that are more than or equal to 200 man day are considered large.
Small (Size): Projects whose effort is less than 200 man day are considered small.
Fixed (Delivery Mode): The value covers basic units that have fixed duration (2-4 weeks) releases.
Planned (Delivery Mode): The value covers basic units that have planned releases that are not fixed duration.
WF (Development Mode): It covers projects using waterfall mode.
Agile (Development Mode): It covers projects using iterative mode. |
| Subgroups: |
LPA: The subgroup represents projects that are large, planned, and using Agile.
195 People, 18 Basic Units
– Large
– Planned
– Agile
LPW: The subgroup represents projects that are large, planned, and using Waterfall.
147 People, 35 Basic Units
– Planned
– WF
– Large
SFA: The subgroup represents projects that are small, fixed release, and using Agile.
94 People, 14 Basic Units
– Small
– Agile
– Fixed
SPW: The subgroup represents projects that are small, planned release, and using Waterfall.
63 People, 98 Basic Units
– Small
– WF
– Planned |