Team Continuity — Agile Maintenance Risk

Agile methods rely on team members understanding aspects of the system without consulting documentation — if the team is broken up, this implicit knowledge is lost and new team members find it difficult to build the same understanding

Explanation

Agile methods rely on team members understanding aspects of the system without having to consult documentation. If an agile development team is broken up, then this implicit knowledge is lost and it is difficult for new team members to build up the same understanding of the system and its components.