HealthLeaders Media August 11, 2021
Humana deploys testing app in a single month that would have taken months under previous agile hand-coding methods.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Self-documenting method allows software projects to progress on more predictable schedules.
– First app at Humana replaced cumbersome call center spreadsheet attempting to track thousands of testing sites.
– Survey of 521 IT decision-makers found they devote 28% of IT budgets to the kind of technical debt visual methods were built to alleviate.
The treacherous world of application development has swallowed many IT budgets, inside and outside of healthcare. For decades, as modern applications evolved, IT shops were restrained by the abilities of teams of developers hand-coding applications, until a new term emerged—”technical debt”—described as the ever-widening gap between...