Articles by Ian Sparks

Contributing to Open Source

Open Source Software (OSS) is one of, if not the, power behind our Information Age, providing the foundation for our phones, appliances and most of the Internet. At TrialGrid we're no different, our product is built on Open Source libraries, using Open Source programming languages and run on Open Source …

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Team Communication

Creating a Study Build is a team effort: Study Builders, Standards Managers, Custom Function Programmers and Testers all working on different parts of the delivered product. With so many people involved, communication can become a challenge, especially where the team are scattered across several timezones.

Even as a solo study …

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Standards Library Compliance

Using Standard Libraries is an excellent way to achieve study build efficiency but within a study some variation from a Therapeutic Area or Global Standard is expected or even encouraged. So how do you, as a Customer of a study build team, get assurance that what has been delivered to …