This theory-development process precedes any decisions about the evaluation. In fact, Donaldson indicates that stakeholders often want to move into thinking about the evaluation and the implications of the program theory during the process of discussing the evaluation. However, it is important for the program theory to be fully developed before moving into identifying the evaluation questions to be answered or the methods to be used to address such questions. The program theory, its key principles, should not be influenced by how the evaluation will be conducted-for example, by worrying about how certain linkages would be tested-but should instead reflect a true picture of what the program is intended to do and how it will do it.