Post-Proposal: The Next Step
Once you have permission to conduct your research, or have had your proposal to do the research approved by the institution with which you are registered, the data gathering and analysis phases begin. If one has constructed a sound proposal, in so much as one is clear about one's research focus and the research strategy one will implement, the process will unfold more or less as planned with some adaptations because plans sometimes need to change. The reality is never quite what we imagine it to be, and the changes in plan are not a disaster as long as one can defend one's decisions and identify how those changes might affect the validity and reliability of the information gathered and the conclusions dawn on basis of that information.
        Remember that in writing the proposal, one is informing the reader about what one will do. Once the research has been conducted, in other words, the methodology has been implemented and data has been processed and interpreted, one will inform the reader about what one has done.  So in revisiting the proposal, one will need to shift from what one will do and the findings anticipated to what one has done and the implications of that for shedding light on the research problem and any proposed solutions, recommendations, and conclusions.

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* DISSERTATION DEFINED: Longer academic documents come with different names: theses involve propositions or positions that are substantiated by argument or empirical research that could be gathered by qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods; treatises are systematic, written expositions and arguments involving methodical discussion about the principles involved and conclusions reached about a topic; research projects require applying qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods to gather empirical information about a topic; and dissertations are the extended, written treatment of a topic. The latter is the most general category, because theses, treatises, and research projects are all dissertations: extended, systematic discussion about a topic.