Challenges in Migration from Waterfall to Agile Environments

Software development methodologies are constantly evolving due to the appearance of new technologies and increasingly demanding user requests. Organizations seek to respond to these new challenges by changing their work practices, both at the technical and organizational levels. Agile methodologies thus emerge as a new development model characterized by greater flexibility and responsiveness to these new requirements, but also introduced new challenges. This study adopts a systematic review methodology to identify the key challenges in the migration process from traditional software development paradigms to agile methodologies. Four dimensions of challenges and a total of 49 sub-dimensions were found. Additionally, we discussed how those challenges can emerge, and what practices can be applied to properly manage and mitigate them.