The emergence of theory appears to transcend the specifics of methodological difference, since theory can be detected regardless of methodological differences. The methodology therefore appears to be transparent. Granularity of Focus A comparison of these two studies suggests that grounded theory is useful in interpreting interview information regardless of the granularity of focus. The first study investigated design teams using a software engineering tool. All grounded theory studies use a data coding scheme.
Qualitative methods use codes to categorize data rather than to quantify it.
Therefore, the number of times an individual comment is categorized is less relevant. Different methods of coding are effective in different contexts. The first study used a multiple coding protocol to capture the interactions among the various team members. Since the comments of different team members relating to different categories were interleaved, single coding these comments would have sacrificed accuracy. Method of Data Generation Grounded theory can be used regardless of the way the data is generated.