Architectural Challenges in Migrating Plan-driven Projects to Agile

TL;DR

This paper explores the challenges of integrating robust software architecture into projects transitioning from plan-driven to agile methodologies, highlighting issues across people, process, and technology.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of architectural challenges in migrating from plan-driven to agile development through literature review and case study insights.

Findings

Challenges are categorized into people, process, and technology.

Identifies key issues faced during migration to agile.

Highlights the need for addressing architectural concerns in transition.

Abstract

Software development has steadily embraced agile software development methodology/method (ASDM) and has been moving away from the plan driven software development methodology (PDM) approaches like waterfall. Given the iterative nature of agile development, the integration of software architecture into the agile way has become challenging. This research identifies the challenges of having a robust architecture in projects already executed by plan driven methods and new projects likewise by conducting a literature review and a case study analysis. The ensuing analysis finds that there are three major areas: people, process and technology, in which these challenges could be mapped.