| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: The developers located in Beijing and Chengdu but they followed the same development process so it has no impact on the processes.)
Customer (Not Relevant: There are three kinds of customer: government, environment and telecommunications customer, for customer involved process such as requirement elicits and product release, the customers believe the OU is more professional than them, so they would like to follow the same process which comes from the OU’s OSSP it has no impact on the processes.)
Size (Not Relevant: The project size distributes from 8 to 25, the same team structure and management process for different size team so it has no impact on the processes.)
Organizational Structure: There are two kinds of org structure of R&D: 1. Research Institute: Responsible for the platform product projects development and scrum an agile method is used. 2. Application Project Group: Responsible for the customized product projects development and waterfall lifecycle is used.
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The type of work is software development and it has no impact on the processes.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Research institute projects (Organizational Structure): This subgroup responsible for the product projects development and scrum agile methods is used.
Application projects (Organizational Structure): This subgroup responsible for the customized product projects development and waterfall lifecycle is used. |
| Subgroups: |
Research institute projects subgroup: This subgroup responsible for the product projects development and scrum agile methods is used.
123 People, 8 Basic Units
– Research institute projects
Application projects subgroup: This subgroup responsible for the customized product projects development and waterfall lifecycle is used.
187 People, 18 Basic Units
– Application projects |