Disadvantages of method use
Disadvantages of method use (Smolander et al. 1990):
- Methods mean more work and more bureaucracy
- Methods slow down the actual development work,
- Methods are difficult to learn, and training will take time and cost money,
- Decrease freedom of professionals because they force to follow a strict procedure, which are unsuitable for some purposes,
- Work load in the first phases of IS development increases and the benefits are seen only later,
- The maintenance of descriptions is tedious,
- Methods are not mature yet, and
- It is hard to select a proper method for a given situation.