What does a good research project need? Five things:
- problems --- interesting, important questions ... issues worth worrying about;
- data --- content, information, substance ... raw material to wrestle with;
- customers --- people who care about what the project is trying to do;
- tools --- from a quiet room and a pencil, all the way up to the most sophisticated technological equipment; and
- people --- smart, energetic, persistent individuals.
What are the challenges that research projects must overcome in each of these categories? Many, including:
- fuzzy, ill-posed, or constantly changing questions;
- noisy, deceptive, missing, or excessive data;
- unreasonable or naïve customers;
- insufficient, incompatible, or unreliable tools; and
- incompetent, undertrained, or overloaded people.
Tuesday, November 21, 2000 at 20:48:22 (EST) = Datetag20001121
TopicOrganizations - TopicProgramming
(correlates: DarwinOnTheFossilRecord, CommonUnderstanding, FutureSymp, ...)
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