Now comes the hard part…

I haven't written much about my thesis on this blog, but the topic is "An exploratory study of the use and perceptions of practices for improving software quality at an Australian IT company". It's well under way (and a good thing too - it's due in 2 months!), and yesterday I started the second phase of interview analysis (the first was extracting "themes" from the interview transcripts/notes), in which I have to start grouping themes together:

Now comes the hard part...

In just over a day, that mess has turned into this:

First shot at grouped codes

So, at least there's progress. :) I'm not certain how great the "fit" is with the categories that I've derived from the data, though. Let's hope I can make some sense of it in the near future!

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