To build the data entry form application, you need to gather details about what it needs to accomplish. Fortunately, you already know the output part of the equation: you need a CSV file containing data about the plants growing in the plots of each laboratory and the environmental conditions at each plot. You work with these files every day, so you're pretty familiar with the field layout.
However, you don't know everything about the data or the process of entering it; you'll need to talk to the other staff involved to find out more information.
First, you'll need to find out more detail about the data being recorded. This isn't always as easy as it sounds. Software needs absolute, black-and-white rules ...
