Methods
Field research is done to explore the application context. You apply a field strategy to get to know your end users, their needs, desires and limitations as organizational and physical contexts in which they will use your product.
Document analysis
field
Why?
Documentation produced by the company can be a great first resource for understanding the organisation you are working for and their work processes.
Domain modelling
field
Why?
Map the domain that your product will be part of, so you know the key concepts and the relations between them.
Exploratory data analysis (ML)
field
Why?
Find something interesting in the data, check understanding of the domain or problem space, generate new questions based on the data.
Explore user requirements
field
Why?
Get a detailed view of how users will be using your solution and what their requirements are.
Focus group
field
Why?
A focus group discussion is an efficient way to gain insight into how people think about an issue, without having to interview each person separately.
Interview
field
Why?
Learn from potential users of your new product and other stakeholders
Observation
field
Why?
Get a feeling for how your intended users will use your product by unobtrusively observing them in their natural environment, doing the things they always do.
Problem analysis
field
Why?
Before solving a problem, it is important to understand it. Moreover, problem analysis ensures that you are not solving the wrong problem.
Stakeholder analysis
field
Why?
Identify the stakeholders and ensure that their needs are considered.
Survey
field
Why?
Collect information (mostly quantitative) from a large sample of your target group
Task analysis
field
Why?
Understand the structure, flow or other aspects of a certain task. Task analysis focuses on what end users actually do to achieve their goals.
