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NPfIT was beyond agile's power to heal

Computing Staff

22 September 2011 • 1 min read

I’m all for agile principles but not even agile could have saved the NPfIT (Agile could have saved NPfIT). Integrating IT across a single hospital is difficult enough and rarely achieved. Doing it ...

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