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International Journal of Knowledge Management
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We are engaged in a qualitative research project to understand how people manage the process of software development. This study uses grounded theory as its method of inquiry and we have learned much about what is and what is not a grounded theory. We, like many researchers have claimed to follow grounded theory methods and even to have produced a grounded theory. In reality, we often only borrow a few grounded theory practices to categorize our data. This paper presents lessons learned about using grounded theory so that both researchers and reviewers can critically evaluate investigators' claims to be producing grounded theory.