A disciplined virtual team and a custom Azure DevOps blueprint that brought consistent delivery to one of South Africa’s largest hospital groups.
Azure DevOps
Microsoft
Delivery partner
Practice
The client is one of South Africa’s biggest hospital groups, with a large and complex IT estate running many projects at once. Those projects were managed individually, with different methodologies and tools, so standards were inconsistent and delivery was fragmented. With so many systems to implement, they needed a solid, shared DevOps approach.
We supplied a broad, disciplined virtual team and built the group a custom DevOps blueprint on Azure DevOps. Rather than force one rigid method, we combined Agile, Scrum and waterfall into a process that fits how the group actually works. Over about 18 months the team delivered a range of projects on it, including infection-outbreak studies, public-facing online booking for practitioners and facilities, infection management and prevention tools, and retail applications for selling private healthcare packages.
Every project now runs on Azure DevOps against a shared blueprint, with proper sprint planning, stakeholder involvement, secure code repositories and consistent deployments. The client was happy enough with the result that they are looking at rolling the process out across the enterprise.
On the back of this engagement, the group is offering the first fully online digital fulfilment for accident and trauma products in South Africa.
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