Applying Agile Principles and Methods in Industries Outside IT Landscape: A Systematic Literature Review

Roshni

Authors

Roshni Department of Computer Software Engineering, UET Mardan

Keywords:

Agile, IT, Systematic Literature Review, Industries.

Abstract

Agile methods have become increasingly popular in various industries because of many benefits over the common waterfall like methodologies. Whereas, there are still many issues and uncertainties faced by co-workers, or those who want to use a flexible approach within a controlled environment. These challenges need to be identified and need to be addressed. In this research, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify challenges perceived by practitioners during their working or adopting agile methodologies. We developed and followed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach for searching agile related studies to extract different challenges. In this research, we divided the SLR into three categories, which was further divided into sub-categories. After searching the related articles using SLR, we present our findings on the challenges of implementing agile methodologies in various type of organizations. This study found the generic agile challenges that can faced by any organization by adopting agile principles. These generic challenges are related to some areas such as managerial, communication, product development, and cultural domains. These challenges can relate to both with-in and outside organizations. We discussed these challenges in detail. To conclude this research, we determined that agile has strong potential to be followed by any organization. This proposed study analyzed that agile has challenges of its modification for other organizations, but these challenges can be solved and agile can be used as effective technique by most of the companies.

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