| Sampling Factors: |
Location (Not Relevant: Only one location – Beijing.)
Customer (Not Relevant: The products of the OU are water conservancy related software. All customers are in agriculture domain. The OU perform same types of work using same process set for all customers.)
Size: Most of the projects (refer to “Type of Work”) are common size around 20-50MM in the OU. There are also some small-size projects following simplified processes according to the tailoring guidelines of the OSSP.
Organizational Structure (Not Relevant: The OU is just a development team with less than 30 people distributed in several projects.)
Type of Work: Generally, software development works organized and managed as projects. Also some urgent defect-fix or enhancement to existing software system. Maintenance will not be included because it follows a simple process, thus is less meaningful for the process improvement. |
| Sampling Factor Values: |
Common (Size): Project Effort 20-50 MM
Small (Size): Project Effort < 20=””>
Software Project (Type of Work): To create or upgrade a software system.
Maintenance (Type of Work): To fix defects for the running software system. |
| Subgroups: |
SG1: Common, Software Project
20 People, 6 Basic Units
– Common
– Software Project
SG2: Small, Software Project
8 People, 2 Basic Units
– Software Project
– Small |