Critical Evaluation of System Analysis and Design: Agile Systems

This report critically evaluates the application of agile system development and open innovation mechanisms. The student analyzes the benefits and challenges of integrating agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, within business operations. The report summarizes the key concepts, including the importance of customer involvement and open innovation techniques. It then presents a critical evaluation of the practical implementation of agile development, highlighting issues such as the lack of transparency, resource allocation, and potential conflicts between stakeholders. The student suggests solutions like enhanced communication and frequent meetings to mitigate these challenges and concludes that effective open practices, combined with inter-organizational collaboration, are crucial for successful project development. References to relevant literature are included to support the analysis.

Running head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
System Analysis and Design
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................1
Summary........................................................................................................................1
Critical Evaluation.........................................................................................................1
Conclusion......................................................................................................................2
References......................................................................................................................3

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The topic chosen to critically evaluate is the ‘Beyond the customer: Opening the
agile systems development process’.
Introduction
Agile system development provides facility to the enterprises to conduct fast effective
business operations. It associates the customers in all the regions of development of agile
systems development (Chesbrough, 2017). The agile methods- Scrum is widely used in the
software development procedures and techniques to get the desired result. The agile method
stresses on the communication techniques and the cooperation techniques and the customer
value over the process. The study focuses on the agile system development and the open
innovation mechanism.
Summary
The critique study focuses on the agile system development that can facilitate the
customers and also showcases the open innovation techniques that can enhance the business
operations of enterprises.
Critical Evaluation
The concepts will be critically demonstrating the two project items who have tried to
implement and configure agile development and open innovation in their premises. The
concept of openness related to the agile system development that gets compromised due to
the absence of transparency and the competing elements.
There are various challenges and the risks associated with the agile methods. At first,
the agile open methods have been implied on only the customers while the technique has not
focused on the stakeholders. The second issue is that it requires a significant amount of time

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and resources from the stakeholders and the third parties (Abrahamsson et al., 2017). The
organisations also tend to appoint junior subordinates to monitor the open activities and
appoint key employees of the organisations to monitor the closed activities. The third issue
that arises is that the employees sometimes do not priorities the commitment and thus the
customers can get neglected as a result. Another serious issue is the engagement. The
representatives of one company states they have enough time to solve the issues while other
representatives of another company state that they have no time left to monitor and solve
issues (Alahyari, Svensson & Gorschek, 2017). The fourth issue states that there is
completion among the people, groups and the organisations, this can seriously affect the open
innovation techniques.
The aforesaid issues can be mitigated by the means of sharing the details of the
project undertakings between the two enterprises. The meetings should be conducted
frequently to get the desired outcomes (Link & Qureshi, 2017). The existence of the on-site
customer has the capability to diminish the time required for sharing the ideas outside the
group.
Conclusion
It can be concluded from the above discourse that the fast effective open practices
collaboratively can enhance the effectiveness of the project development. The inter and intra-
organizational operations and implementation of open innovation in the agile system
development is necessary for the detecting the vital challenges for the research. The agile
method has stressed on the communication techniques and the cooperation techniques and the
customer value over the process. The study has also focused on the agile system development
and the open innovation mechanism.

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References
Abrahamsson, P., Salo, O., Ronkainen, J., & Warsta, J. (2017). Agile software development
methods: Review and analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08439.
Alahyari, H., Svensson, R. B., & Gorschek, T. (2017). A study of value in agile software
development organizations. Journal of Systems and Software, 125, 271-288.
Chesbrough, H. (2017). The Future of Open Innovation: The future of open innovation is
more extensive, more collaborative, and more engaged with a wider variety of
participants. Research-Technology Management, 60(1), 35-38.
Link, G. J., & Qureshi, S. (2017). The Role of Open Source in New Business Formation:
Innovations for Development.