One step forward, one back

I thought I'd got the chance of another case study, spoke to one person involved with the IT project, but then was told that limited resources and business pressures prevented any further discussion.

One step forward, one back

It could be worse; it could be two steps back. Two steps back would be a person asking me not to use already gathered material.

In Alice in the Looking Glass, the red Queen advises:

"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

To finish my PhD within the funded time, I need to go twice as fast. That means I probably need twice as many case studies as I have access to. Oh glum!