Before we start
Write down one real question from your work
Derivation
How we arrived at eight phases
Four steps: pool the literatures, check what existing models cover, stress-test against industry frameworks, and take back what they do better.
Derivation
Disambiguation
Which kind of research is your question?
People say “research” and mean different work. Each sense takes its own route through the same eight phases.
Disambiguation
Researching research
The arc, run on itself
Each turn of the spiral is a version of the arc. Each step is labeled with the phase it performed on the arc itself.
Researching research
Self-referential loops
Research changes its own inputs
Its methods, its tools, its researcher, and sometimes its own subject. Some of those loops correct themselves. Some only reinforce.
Self-referential loops
Field notes before you use the tools
What to know before the case studies
References
Before you open the case studies