Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful product testers

Lesson

ID	35
Has statement	Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful ‘guinea pigs’ to work with preliminary versions of the system as they questioned every aspect and suggested better ways of doing things. However, the need for professional foresters, with wide experience in the actual management of a wide variety of forest properties, was essential to ensure that the system was designed in such a way that it reflected the methods and order in which they carry out forest management planning work.
Has evidence
Has consequences
Has recommendation for action
Has domain	Participation, Project management
Has DSS development stage	Testing, Use
Has decision stage
Has temporal scale	Medium term (tactical)
Has spatial context	Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Stand level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has goods and services dimension	Market non-wood products, Market services, Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	Single decision maker
Has country	Ireland
Has reference
Has related DSS
Has related case	Ireland-PractiSFM multi-resource inventory and decision support for private forest owners
Has related lesson
Has other relevant information
Has working group theme	Dss development process, Participation
Has DSS development	Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful ‘guinea pigs’.Description of DSS development
Has decision support techniques	Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful ‘guinea pigs’.Decision support techniques
Has knowledge management processes	Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful ‘guinea pigs’.Knowledge management process
Has support for social participation	Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful ‘guinea pigs’.Support of social participation
Has actor perspective	Researcher
Has researcher role
Has user role
Has developer role

Projmgt Participation Early involvement Early involvement