| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The Software Development Centre is located in Shenzhen China. The OU has no other Software Development Centre in other location. The location has no impact on process.)
Customer (Not Relevant: There is a standard process of requirement communication in the group. All the development process for all the customers is the same. “Customer” has no impact with their development process.)
Size (Not Relevant: All the projects in different size are running in same process. There is no difference in the process of the projects with different size. All of the projects are 1-3 months and 6-10 staffs and the number of functions in projects are similar. “Size” has no impact with their development process.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the projects are conducted under Software Development Centre. “Organizational structure” has no impact with their development process.)
Type of Work: There are 2 types of the products: One is new products, the other is secondary development products. New products projects perform the process exactly following the whole life-cycle development process, no process can be tailored. Secondary development products are intended to modify functions on the open source platform. Normally is focused on customized functions. The process of secondary development products projects is tailored from the standard process. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
New (Type of Work): Develop a new software service platform system based on market requirement
Secondary development (Type of Work): Make change or add new features on an existed system platform |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Develop a new software service platform system based on market requirement
18 People, 3 Basic Units
– New
SG2: Make change or add new features on an existed system platform
12 People, 2 Basic Units
– Secondary development |