Challenges and Weaknesses of Agile Method in Enterprise Architecture

As Information Technologies (IT) grow in complexity and scope, the need for a coherent approach toenterprise wide modelling becomes paramount. Changing is one of the most important challenges thatorganisation encounter. The topic of enterprise architecture has been gaining significant attention fromboth academia and industry due to the inefficiencies of current IT architecture to cope with rapid changesin business environment. Apart from that, Agile is new concept that present in EA recently. It tries to beadaptive with frequently changes which occurred in organisation. There are some agile methodology andmethod 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 usabilityof them in EA. This research intends to identify these challenges and proposed method to improve theusability of agility in enterprise architecture.