such as Scrum, Agile Programming and Extreme Programming are helping thousands of organizations worldwide to manage their development projects more effectively.

But these methodologies do have challenges:

Large organizations:

The openness of these methodologies can become unwieldy when the project involves a large number of individuals.

Multiple locations:

These methodologies are most effective when team members can collaborate– if the members are spread throughout the country or even the world, collaboration can be difficult.

Complex projects:

Using manual tools or even Excel add-ins can become impractical as the complexity of the project grows.