“The challenge around the more iterative, smaller, locally-owned projects is: do you then create a lot of fragmentation?” said Cansoy, the public sector director of IT industry trade association Intellect, in an interview with CSW. “You want a public service which is joined-up and looks like a single public sector. But if you’re doing it in that iterative way, does it create fragmentation? How do you ensure a certain level of service quality is applied? That different systems are able to talk to each other and share information?’
Agile development methodology “can be a very neat little tool, but it’s not suitable for all instances and circumstances,” she added.
See full interview.
• Meanwhile, US IT firm CSC has agreed a £900m package of work with the Department of Health. The company was involved in the scrapped National Programme for IT, and said last year that it expected to secure more work in compensation for its cancelled projects (p2, CSW 14 Dec).