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Recently, agile methods need evidences to prove its usefulness since its limited empirical that is subject to discussions. People feel it is necessary but laborious, if agile methods are difficult to apply to practice. Some may need an optimistic attitude to use agile methods rather than they merely following the policy of company. Others concern that agile methods may not adapt to traditional methods and past experiences. In this essay, I will briefly discuss the disadvantages of agile methods and examples to manage those disadvantages.

One research shows that people who had higher than 3 years experience of traditional method will feel negative about the agile method. Many reasons cause that such as traditional methods can get more communication, effectiveness and work-organized. It is clear from ‘Binary Agile Experience’ table that the biggest challenging areas of agile method from negative group are the deployment of agile methods, transparency and requirements management. As for the deployment of agile methods, they concerned that all the team must use agile method simultaneously in order to get the effectiveness because individuals cannot make decisions by themselves when they using agile methods. Visibility that defined as sharing information and tracking projects can be regarded as other major issue of agile method. People concerned that they may lose transparency when using the agile method, because they need to know what happens at the level of program to get the big picture. As for the requirements management, agile methods often miss overall planning. Although the fast development of software can work without plans, major decisions are based on the thought of project manager at that moment. So they worry about thos...

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In conclusion, there are many disadvantages of agile methods such as lacking communication or collaboration, effectiveness and overall goal… For example, there are six obstacles such as unwilling to commit to a decision, conflicting priorities, unstable resource availability, lack of implementation, empowerment or ownership and collaborative group decision-making issue. However, there are some methods to manage those disadvantages as well. For instance, make a clear and comprehensive view, more communication between teams and more detailed documentation… Though agile methods have its constraints, there was a trend that more and more company adopts agile methods due to its benefits. If agile methods continue to improve its function and overcome its drawbacks, more companies would adopt agile methods in future.