How to create a compliance table in Confluence
When building a quality procedure that complies with a specific standard, a compliance table is a handy reference. It maps the standards’ sections to your procedures, and helps ensure that all requirements are met. As an added benefit, auditors love a compliance...
What you should ask yourself before building a quality management system
Before you build a quality management system (QMS), it’s critical that you understand what is your key driver. Over the years, here are some of the motives I’ve heard: It’s a milestone for the next funding round. It satisfies regulatory requirements (i.e. CE...
The roles of Atlassian tools in quality management
People often ask me about the specific roles different Atlassian tools play in supporting quality management processes. Here I’ve put together a few examples of which tools are best to support each aspect of certain quality management processes and why. While the...
Two new things we love in Confluence
The Atlassian tools and third-party plugins for Confluence are evolving all the time and at RadBee we’re always on the lookout for changes that might help to support your compliance and quality assurance needs. We’ve recently come across two gems. The first is a...
How Confluence meets the needs of document users
When designing a controlled document management system, it’s important to take the requirements of everyone who may need to access the documents into account. That’s why mapping users’ needs through each stage of the controlled document lifecycle is a key element in...More from RadBee
The Gist of Writing Better Read And Understood Training Docs, Part 2Read & Understood trainings are known both for what they do well — demonstrate compliance to auditors — and also for what they do not do so well: truly train employees. The truth is there’s no reason that you can’t achieve both goals by making it quick and easy for trainees and auditors alike to […]
What does eQMS success looks like?A successful eQMS project is not simply about replacing a legacy tool with a shiny, cool new one. It’s also not solely about achieving regulatory compliance. While those are positive outcomes, they’re not the point of evolving your quality system. Just like smart phones weren’t only an upgrade of the dial telephone and commercial flights […]
The Gist of Writing Better Read And Understood Training DocsGetting your team to confirm they’ve read and understood documents is only half the battle. Granted, it’s an important battle to win. It’s why we love getting feedback like this on our Read & Understood Training Genius app for Confluence: “It’s great — one of our developers was behind with 69 read & understood trainings. […]
Why the Way to a Hellish Quality System May Be Paved With Best PracticesStandard operating procedures (SOPs) created according to “best practices” ideally should lead to smooth, coordinated operations, greater productivity, lower risk of errors and better compliance. But oftentimes, the reality is different. Regulations and standards tend to be obscure and boring. The temptation to find a shortcut and skip bits of essential learning just to get […]
How to Easily Integrate Radbee’s Read & Understood Training Genius With Comala AppsIf you are using Comala Workflows App to manage your controlled documents, then your “read and understood” rules should be aware of the workflow status of the page. For example, if you would like people to train on pages that have a new official version, which is about to or has recently gone into effect, […]