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LIMS Requirement Development Is More Than a Laboratory Wish List

How should labs develop their requirements?

1. Detail the existing information management system or processes (even if they are manual).
2. Define the associated information and data, and classify their criticality.
3. Identify current and previous information management policy and tools, as well as their effectiveness.
4. Identify the regulations, standards, and best practices affecting your laboratory and its digital assets.
5. Identify the laboratory's various practical workflows and detail how information management tools intersect and improve the workflows.
6. Perform a gap analysis of the current information management system or processes (i.e., define what needs are currently not being met).
7. Declare and describe objectives based on the outcomes of the above assessments, highlighting how you envision identified gaps should be filled.
8. Select and refine requirements based on the assessments, objectives, and policies highlighted prior, identifying a handful of the most critical requirements.