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Software development is considered to be successful if completed within time and budget while satisfying customers’ needs. Agile development methodologies provide flexibility to handle changing requirements, improved communication mechanisms and improved quality while enhancing the time-to market speed. Empirical studies on agile methods are mainly focused on the benefits and challenges of adopting any specific agile method. The impact of applying the individual agile practices is not addressed in detail. Hence it is difficult to investigate each practice with respect to the experiences associated with their usage. In order to address this gap, we have conducted an industrial survey to identify benefits and challenges of agile practices. The literature studies mostly report the benefits of applying agile practices while the challenges associated with the use of practices are addressed in fewer studies. The motive of this work is to confirm whether the benefits of agile practices reported in literature studies are experienced the same way in software industry and to explore the challenges of agile practices experienced by the practitioners. It is found that benefits reported in literature are strongly verified by industry and several new challenges associated with the use of agile practices are explored.

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