Assignment Description

Imagine that you are a departmental manager in a large health care organization’s information technology (IT) department. The chief information officer (CIO) has asked you to initiate a change from the traditional waterfall project structure to an agile approach. Complete the following for this assignment:

• Research different agile methodologies, and identify 1 approach that you will suggest to the CIO.
• Explain why this method would be beneficial to the IT organization.
• Identify challenges that are specific to the health care industry that will need to be addressed during the transition to an agile project format.
• Identify the 5 greatest challenges that you will need to mitigate for the transition.
• Explain a sample implementation plan to transition the organization from waterfall to the identified agile approach.