Imperfections Underlying the Manifesto for Agile Software Development

There is an assumption that Agile principles are sacrosanct and therefore Agile movement is in some ways accepting few criticisms. As a result, academic studies providing evidence about persistent difficulties, deterioration situations or even complete failure in this regard are still scarce. Although, there is a limited number of studies on the limitations, context dependencies and assumptions of the Agile Software Development and the Agile Manifesto in particular, the number of studies on the imperfections of the manifesto is very few. Holding the aim of opening gates to questioning of the underpinning "sacrosanct" Agile principles for the sake of agility itself, this study puts forwards that the manifesto has some imperfections. For the investigation of the imperfections, a reading was made by the author on the Agile Manifesto. The study then exposes and comprehensively discusses the identified issues along with their reasoning, to fulfill the gap emerging from the lacking resources on the area.