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Adapting agile development practices for hyper-agile environments: lessons learned from a COVID-19 emergency response
Salman Nazir1, Brad Price1, Nanda C Surendra1
1John Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6025 USA.
Information Technology & Management
|October 3, 2022
Summary
Agile software development practices were adapted for hyper-agile environments, like COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Lessons learned offer insights into developing critical systems rapidly amidst extreme change.
Area of Science:
- Software Engineering
- Information Systems
- Public Health Informatics
Background:
- Agile development is effective for managing changing software requirements.
- Its applicability in hyper-agile environments with extremely rapid change remains under-explored.
- The COVID-19 vaccine distribution presented a hyper-agile challenge requiring swift software solutions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the efficacy of agile practices in hyper-agile environments.
- To develop a mission-critical software system for COVID-19 vaccine distribution visibility.
- To derive lessons for adapting agile methodologies for hyper-agile software development.
Main Methods:
- Employed a clinical research methodology adapted for software development.
- Utilized agile software development practices to build a critical information system.
- Documented lessons learned during the rapid development process.
Main Results:
- Successfully developed a software system to provide visibility into vaccine distribution.
- Identified key lessons for adapting agile methodologies to hyper-agile contexts.
- Demonstrated the feasibility of rapid software development for emergent, high-stakes problems.
Conclusions:
- Agile development principles can be extended to hyper-agile environments.
- The study provides foundational insights into best practices for rapid software development in unprecedented health crises.
- This work contributes to understanding how to build responsive information systems for public health emergencies.
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