Scrum is the most commonly used agile delivery method in the world. It’s a lightweight framework that empowers teams to build quickly through iterative design. An iterative approach means delivering part of a product, getting feedback, and then adapting the product and the team based on that feedback. Scrum teams regularly build better products faster, while being happier too.
Project managers are in charge of one or a set of projects within a company. They plan resources, handle finances, and organize the business documents related to the project. They also work directly with higher management to ensure the project has a set direction for success, and that it meets this definition of success at the completion period.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) is the digital record of a patient’s medical history. The EHR contains the patient’s admission reports, their vital signs, progress notes, diagnoses, medications, allergies, lab data, and reports, and other details include demographic and insurance data.
World health organization (WHO) in the year 1948 defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The WHO constitution claims that every government is responsible for the health of their peoples which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and social measures. (WHO, 2020).
Agile project management is the best approach to handle huge healthcare projects. Agile project management helps the project teams to have shorter development cycles.Healthcare projects need better-equipped project management that quickly adapt any changes and deliver work faster.
Agile project management’s blueprint originated from the software industry. The software project managers usually followed a rigid sequential approach, resulting in delayed project delivery.
This case study is about the USA’s well-known healthcare payer who owns a huge IT infrastructure that wanted to gain a high level of business value by incorporating Agile and DevOps features. They needed their product to be built with high-quality, quick release and cost-optimized.
The healthcare industry which is one of the oldest industries runs on traditional values and principles. Changing government “Healthcare Reforms” often leads to more chaos than order. Compliances, caregivers, doctors, nurses, clinicians, and administrative staff often face the music because of mismanagement. A defense mechanism operates in the background to stay within the perforated guidelines. This prevents the optimal use of resources, increased costs, and delayed or redundant projects. These factors become barriers to entry for project management in the healthcare industry.
Project management is a challenging task that needs a high expertise to manage the projects and deliver it with high quality as per the set timeline. Healthcare project management facessome general issueslike Poor Planning, Unrealistic Goals, Insufficient Communication, Improper Expenses, Risk Mismanagement and Unrealistic Deadlines. These some general issues need to resolve to get smooth and quality project delivery on time.
The starting point for any project development is to determine how to manage the project as a team. Taking such decisions can be difficult as there are two major project development methodologies already being used. The two main development methodologies are agile and waterfall models. They are applied to the software development cycle and help in the overall project management process.