Challenges of adopting agile methods in a public organization

Agile development methods are widely used among business enterprises. Since the introduction of Manifesto in 2001, several agile have been implemented, first single-team set-ups and later larger multi-team for complex Information Technology (IT) system development. However, adoption has slow public sector. This is also reflected academic literature, as there only a few studies discussing organizations. paper contributes to research on use practices specifically context organizations, sheds light challenges organization may face while adopting these practices. The aim this identify categorize that hinder efficient IT projects include private software vendors. based case study large governmental office. As result, presents categories identified challenges, root causes discussion characteristics