| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: No process difference with project locations. One location, Wuhan city.)
Customer: The customers of the projects are different including IoT enterprises and financial customers. There are some minor differences in practice implementation–projects for IoT enterprises mainly follow industry standards to collect requirements, while projects for financial enterprises need to take more efforts for customer requirements solicitation and analysis.
Size (Not Relevant: No difference in practice-implementation as per the size, all projects have a similar size in each subgroup.)
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: One organization structure. All projects are under the same command chain.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The types of work for all projects are some with product development as the sole type. -) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
IoT (Customer): The projects are specifically developed for use by IoT-based enterprises.
Financial (Customer): The projects are specifically developed for use by financial companies. |
| Subgroups: |
SUB1: The projects in this subgroup are specifically developed for use by IoT-based enterprises.
21 People, 2 Basic Units
– IoT
SUB2: The projects in this subgroup are specifically developed for use by financial companies.
13 People, 1 Basic Units
– Financial |