# The first job: a literature review on the method of a project

A literature review of 38 sources on how one person goes from a problem to a result with few round trips. It ends in a named baseline. This project is the first job of the repository, written in the project shape.

**Shape:** [project](../../project.md)

## Contents

| Part | Summary |
|---|---|
| [problem](problem.md) | how one person goes from a stated problem to a checked result with the fewest wasted round trips, leaving a trail |
| [scope](scope.md) | what the review covers and leaves out, and why |
| [review](review.md) | the first four steps: frame, literature review, state of the art, position |
| [baseline](baseline.md) | step five: B1, the design science process and the project organization guides |
| [plan](plan.md) | the steps, what was decided first, what was left to the maintainer |
| [trail](trail.md) | what was asked, found and produced, and where each lives |

## See also

[The shape](../../project.md); [the review itself](../../../evidence/project-method/README.md).