| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Locations are primarily Fujian and neighboring provinces, China and the same set of standard processes are being used across all locations)
Customer: The firm’s projects are primarily the Commercial Customer and Government Customer. They primarily have different software development cycles. The Commercial Customer is primarily a prototype that converts to a waterfall development. Initially with a higher amount of requirements engineers. Government Customer requirements are primarily based on multiyear funding and preplanned versioning.
Size (Not Relevant: All projects follow the firm”s standard process with minor tailoring. Basic unit size primarily ranges from 5-14 persons. Therefore standard processes employed do not differ based on this size range))
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: All the projects have the same basic and similar structure with project manager/project lead, team-members etc. Additionally, they all share the same OSSP (processes) implementation with no substantial tailoring. Consequently, the organizational structure does not cause significant variations in the performance of processes.)
Type of Work (Not Relevant: The Firm”s software development is primarily based on Microsoft development platform with similar technology.) |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
G1: Commercial Cusomer (Customer): The firms Commercial Customer is primarily a prototype that converts to a waterfall development.
G2: Government Customer (Customer): Government Customer requirements are primarily based on multiyear funding and preplanned versioning. |
| Subgroups: |
G1: Commercial Customers: Primarily a prototype that converts to a waterfall development.
15 People, 2 Basic Units
– G1: Commercial Cusomer
G2: Government Customer: Requirements are primarily based on multiyear funding and preplanned versioning
25 People, 3 Basic Units
– G2: Government Customer |