Agile development is no longer just a movement, it has now become established as a best practice in software engineering, but what is it? Today, there is no one agile process or methodology, there are many.One of the earliest is Extreme Programming (or XP).Another that is popular today is Scrum. But regardless of the name, each incorporates the principles of the Agile Manifesto: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working Software over Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan Now, you may thinking that that all sounds very nice, but can it really work for Health IT? After all, we have regulatory concerns. We have patient safety issues. Our software is extremely complex. These are legitimate…
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