Methods

As an ICT student or professional, you need to solve all kind of ICT challenges. Answering the questions and tackling the problems or opportunities of your ICT project requires research and often a combination of various ICT research methods. The toolkit on this website offers you a set of possible research methods and a framework to select the appropriate (combination of) methods.

• All Methods
• Library
• Field
• Lab
• Showroom
• Workshop
• Extra

• Available product analysis
• Best good and bad practices
• Community research
• Competitive analysis
• Design pattern research
• Expert interview
• Literature study
• SWOT analysis

• Descriptive statistics
• Document analysis
• Domain modelling
• Exploratory data analysis (ML)
• Explore user requirements
• Focus group
• Interview
• Observation
• Problem analysis
• Stakeholder analysis
• Survey
• Task analysis

• A/B testing
• Component test
• Computer simulation
• Data analytics
• Data quality check (ML)
• Hardware validation
• Inferential statistics
• Model evaluation (ML)
• Model validation (ML)
• Non-functional test
• Security test
• System test
• Unit test
• Usability testing

• Benchmark test
• Ethical check
• Guideline conformity analysis
• Peer review
• Pitch
• Product review
• Static program analysis

• Brainstorm
• Business case exploration
• Co-creation
• Code review
• Decomposition
• Gap analysis
• Hackathon
• IT architecture sketching
• Multi-criteria decision making
• Prototyping
• Requirements prioritization
• Root cause analysis

• Joker