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5-minute research: how research teams find (or lose) their own prior knowledge.

Short research study: what makes research planning, execution, and reproduction slow or painful, especially for early-career researchers. 5 minutes, anonymous unless you choose to share contact.

1. Your role?

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2. Primary research environment?

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3. Team size whose artifacts you need to understand/reuse?

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4. Where do those artifacts live today?

5. In the last 30 days, how often did you search for prior lab/project knowledge that should already exist?

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6. Most recent time - how long to find the answer?

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7. How costly is this for your team?

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8. New joiner - time until they understand what's been tried and why?

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9. How well can you currently answer 'have we tried this before, and what happened?"

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11. What workaround have you built?

12. If you could get an instant, trustworthy answer to any one question about your team's past work, what would it be?

13. Can we contact you for a 15-min follow-up?