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Planning teams and collaboration

In the Central Designer application, you can develop multiple studies simultaneously, and multiple users can work on the same study simultaneously.

Considerations for planning teams and collaboration

Questions to consider

Notes

How will work be divided and assigned?

For example:

  • Who will work on each study? Do study designers in your organization specialize in particular therapeutic areas?
  • Do you want different users to manage study objects in libraries and study objects in studies?
  • Will different users create study objects and rules?
  • Do you want to assign supervisors to review the work of other users?
  • If your studies will be localized, is translation performed as a separate activity or by the user who creates study objects?

How will people work collaboratively when tasks are divided?

Which activities must be performed sequentially, and which can be performed concurrently? For example, the following activities depend on the existence of a study object but can be performed in any order after the study object has been created:

  • Defining study object properties.
  • Defining form layout.
  • Translating text.
  • Creating rules.

In how much detail do you want to break down tasks?

  • What types of tasks do you want to define?
  • Which teams should perform particular task types?

How do you want to use collaboration notes? What types of collaboration notes do you want to define?

For example, you could use collaboration notes to communicate:

  • Design specifications for study objects.
  • Other information about study objects.
  • Instructions to other users.
  • Status information about study objects that are in the process of development.

How will the order in which you develop study objects affect your team assignments?

The Central Designer application supports building studies from the top down, from the bottom up, or a combination of approaches. In what order do you prefer to develop study objects? For example, you could have one team member build or copy all of the required codelists while another creates the study workflows.

How will reuse affect your validation and formal testing plans?

After a study object has been validated, it should not be necessary to retest it in every study where it is used.

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