1. What do you think is the most likely problem that would cause an Agile approach to fail? Company C is a company with a small IT organization that has been in the primary mode of supporting existing legacy applications. The company has not had to develop a major new application for a number of years.

◾◾ The existing legacy applications evolved gradually and were developed incrementally over a long period of time.

◾◾ The company initiated an effort to replace and redesign a large, existing legacy application and decided to use an Agile approach for the development effort although they did not have any significant experience in Agile, especially using Agile for large, complex enterprise-level application development.

The Approach The company implemented an Agile development process from the “bottom up” within the development organization. The process was limited to a development process only, the business participation in the process was limited primarily to joint application design (JAD) sessions to define the requirements, and the role of the Product Owner was not fully implemented