Qualitative projects require continual assessment of what’s known and what’s still not understood. They must often adapt to discovery during the project and you continually need to review the project’s parts given this change.
NVivo offers the following functionality which you can used to assess the changes in your project in the following ways:
Visually scan your list of sources to assess richness and relevance of the data
Visually scan your list of nodes to see how and when your conceptual framework shifted or to see which are most active. (Which nodes are not involved in the current coding—should they be reviewed?)
Visually scan your queries and results to assess where the activity is, how widely your questioning is ranging, how balanced and strong is the evidence for significant issues.
Reports allow you to view and regularly store statements of the state of your data, the coverage of your coding, the questions you have asked and results received, the node system and how efficiently it is shaping, the distribution of cases, the balance of relationships and adequacy of evidence for them.