Deliverable 5.4 - User Validation Report for the Global Fish Tracking System (GFTS)

This report describes the validation activities we have performed with the user representative in the Global Fish Tracking Service (GFTS) consortium and the feedback received. For the GFTS project, our partner IFREMER are our representative users. Throughout the project we have worked closely with IFREMER adopting a codesign approach to ensure that we are building something that is useful for them and solves problems they had in practice. It is important to notice that this agile and continuous feedback approach that we adopted in direct collaboration with IFREMER has been a process that started from the beginning. We wanted to avoid building our use case based on high level assumptions, then build it, and then when already built start validating the output. Instead of such a linear approach, we used codesign and agile practices to continuously validate our assumptions as we moved forward in the project. We are therefore not reporting on a final validation activity that we performed at the end of the project, but rather we report on the process we have used and the insights we collected in a cumulative and iterative way throughout the project.