8: Executing A Small-Scale Research Project

• Very lightly document the plan (some folks will benefit from this”north star”, others not so much, but this seems like the logical place to start – sort of like Ari’s “commander’s intent”)

• De-biasing options

• Combined measuring+recruiting survey

• What to promise

  • Anonymity or not?

  • Share back prelim results?

  • Time required to participate

  • Promises about results/impact or not?

  • Disclosures about your role, skin in the game, objectivity, etc?

• Appropriate defaults for soliciting+followup, scheduling, and conducting interviews (recorded or not? etc.)

  • LinkedIn connect+recruit message

  • Email recruit message

  • Other means of recruitment: (use your own judgment + contextual appropriateness for these)

• Summary of grounded theory iteration method and further reading:

  • https://delvetool.com/groundedtheory

  • https://fulcra.design/a-brief-informal-guide-to-doing-grounded-theory

  • https://axle.design/an-integrated-qualitative-analysis-environment-with-obsidian

• What is “enough”/saturation?

• Troubleshooting