Case studies
Over
three years we have conducted qualitative interpretive research with
GridPP. Data collection began in August 2006, following earlier pilot
work, and has included participant observations of weekly project
management board meetings and deployment team meetings, quarterly GridPP
collaboration meetings in the UK, international meetings of the LCG,
site reviews carried out by GridPP, observation of various forums and
conferences in which GridPP participates. The research team has had full
access to the GridPP main documentation, and subscribes to its main
mailing list and the deployment team mailing list. At the core of this
research are around seventy semi-structured qualitative interviews of
between one and one and a half hours, undertaken at various universities
across the UK and during two week-long periods at CERN in Geneva.
Below
we present four case studies of GridPP which demonstrate four different
aspects of the project. We believe the implications generated from these
perspectives will resonate with most distributed projects in other
fields.
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