| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: All the work is done in the OU in Chengdu.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The customers of the OU have no requirements to the procedures and templates for the teams to follow.)
Size (Not Relevant: The teams normally are made up of 40 persons and the team size has no impact to the processes and procedures used by the teams during their development.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the products are developed in the R&D Department in the OU.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The OU only develops mobile communication MIS and mobile embedded software products.)
Product Type: There are two types of software products in the OU, which have some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the teams to follow. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Communication MIS (Product Type): The communication MIS products have some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the teams to follow.
Mobile Embedded (Product Type): The mobile embedded products have some different requirements on the procedures and templates for the teams to follow as well. |
| Subgroups: |
Subgroup A: Product Type-ComMIS
123 People, 4 Basic Units
– Communication MIS
Subgroup B: Product Type-MobileEmbed
34 People, 1 Basic Units
– Mobile Embedded |