CHALLENGES AND WEAKNESSES OF AGILE METHOD IN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

As Information Technologies (IT) grow in complexity and scope, the need for a coherent approach to enterprise wide modelling becomes paramount. Changing is one of the most important challenges that organisation encounter. The topic of enterprise architecture has been gaining significant attention from both academia and industry due to the inefficiencies of current IT architecture to cope with rapid changes in business environment. Apart from that, Agile is new concept that present in EA recently. It tries to be adaptive with frequently changes which occurred in organisation. There are some agile methodology and method with maintain agile manifesto. Briefly they use agile practices in their development such as XP, Scrum and service oriented architecture. Each of them follows some challenges that lead to less usability of them in EA. This research intends to identify these challenges and proposed method to improve the usability of agility in enterprise architecture.