ABSTRACT
SOP review and approval If the first draft of an SOP is based on a thoroughly vetted process, the SOP author will not need too much time to translate the process from the process map into a first draft of the SOP text using the SOP template. There may be a few questions of responsibility or wording, but it should be easily accomplished. What will take time-much more time-will be sending out the document for multiple rounds of review and then final approval. Each round of review will generate many comments and issues that need to be adjudicated and resolved before it goes out for the next round. The time needed to solicit feedback and then incorporate those comments is the reason SOPs take a long time to revise.
