The review and research on agile oriented method in the pilot industry system

Hong Wang

School of Art and Design, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China

School of Art, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430062, China

Agile methodology has getting wide recognition within the software industry due to its flexibility and ability to cope with rapid changes in the software development environments. It is however comes with a number of demands that must be complied with. This paper presents a pilot systematic literature review (SLR) study on the limitations of Agile methods in the industry based on primary research. In this study, conference and journal papers in the IEEE, published between 2007 and 2012 were investigated. 29 papers were found as the most relevant. While the SLR findings have brought to both limitations in the implementation and in the Agile methods, the former becomes the most addressed issues. The result revealed that high dependency on people/personnel, organizational dependency, as well as high impact on organizational structure and culture as the three most repeatedly addressed factors. While these three factors are mutually related, people factor especially upper level management strong involvement and support can be regarded as a primary necessity in the Agile implementation. In spite of apparent emphasis on people critical function stated in the Agile principles, plus the excellent rules in the gist of the principles, the problem still arose when it comes to the implementation part. This indicates the need for future work on proper guidelines for management, given that existing guidelines for Agile adoptions and implementations are general and less focus given to upper level managers.