Transforming Healthcare Project Management through Agile Practices: A Framework for Adaptive Healthcare Delivery

Abstract

The use of the traditional, rigid and linear structures of healthcare project management has been found to be inadequate to address the needs of the modern healthcare contextues, where there are a lot of uncertainties, high rates of change and complex interdependencies. This paper suggests an agile-based framework of adapting the healthcare project management in order to improve the flexibility, collaboration, and resilience. The researchers applied the mixed-methods design, conducting a quantitative study on the 100 healthcare professionals, who had to provide data with regard to the role agile played in healthcare transformation, along with the qualitative research that involved 10 stakeholders participating in the agile-led healthcare projects. Quantitative data showed that there were some significant positive correlations between agile adoption, project performance, stakeholder satisfaction and flexibility and responsiveness ( p under 0.05 ) and the qualitative analysis yielded five major themes flexibility and responsiveness, collaboration and cross-functional engagement, continuous improvement, barriers to implementation, and perceived outcomes and impact. All the outcomes prove the idea that agile principles, properly engrained in healthcare management, will increase flexibility, communication, performance, and solve the systematic problem of operating dynamic healthcare systems. This project provides an in-depth approach to reforming healthcare delivery with agile approaches by focusing on resilience, continuous improvement, and patient-focused end results.