Short Course Description

LIMS in the Organization

Course Description

The course is not aimed at a technical level: programming and detailed technical architectures will not be covered.

Who Should Attend

How You'll benefit from this course

Course Topics

Overview of the system development life cycle of a LIMS and the common issues and problems associated with a project:

  • System scope
  • Specification
  • User involvement
  • End user testing
  • Expected documentation

Developing the overall strategy for a project via a LIMS matrix:

  • High-level prioritization of the functions and phasing of the project.
  • Covers what is a LIMS, the full scope of a system within an organization and approaches to implementing the system, replacing an existing system.

Implementation: does the LIMS fit the laboratory or the laboratory fit the LIMS?

  • Do I change the LIMS to fit my current working practices or do I change my current working practices to fit a standard LIMS?

User Requirements Specification (URS) for the LIMS:

  • What is it and why is it important?
  • Understanding your working practices and processes
  • Role of prototyping in developing user requirements

Role of the Users in a LIMS project

  • Understanding why it is important to have users involved in a LIMS project
  • The implications for the project if they are not

Documenting the LIMS including System Configuration and End User Testing:

  • What documents are required to support a LIMS from business and/or regulatory perspectives?
  • Project control the quality plan or validation plan
  • Specifications for commercial and custom systems

Project Risk Management

  • What can co wrong with a LIMS project and why?
  • This presentation looks a key stages of a project and highlights some of the common issues that you need to control to enable a LIMS project to be successful

Open forum: where any questions can be raised by the participants

Course Fee:
US $500/$600*		 Course Format:
Lecture		 Class Limit:
40

Instructor:

Dr. Robert D. McDowall Robert D. McDowall, Ph.D.

McDowall Consulting
Bromley, Kent
United Kingdom

Bob McDowall is an analytical chemist with over 30 years experience and 20 years experience of LIMS and electronic working. Bob edited the first book on LIMS and has published extensively on the subject with over 60 published papers and more than 50 workshops on the subject run at international symposia and meetings. The LIMS Institute in recognition of his input to the subject and teaching presented him the 1997 LIMS Award. He is Principal of McDowall Consulting and was Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, UK from 1991 to 2001.

* higher fee applies to those who are not ALA members