Articles by Ian Sparks

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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 …

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This week at TrialGrid (Mar 3, 2017)

This week Amazon had problems with its Simple Storage Service (S3) which affected a number of prominent services including Quora the Q&A site and the popular Slack team-communication system.

For full details of what happened you can read Amazon's disclosure. But in summary, a user typed a command incorrectly …

Save 20-30% on Edit Check Builds

Andrew and I are on a mission to reduce the cost and effort of building Rave studies by 50%. It's an ambitious goal but nothing really worth doing is easy.

One of the most costly areas of study build is the writing and testing of Edit Checks. So lets take …