Crowd source software development is getting popular for many of its promising features. As an emerging approach, it does have many challenges too. Some of the challenges specifically occur when crowd sourcing is carried out in an environment where agile methodology is used. Crowdsourcing is somewhat waterfall and involves crowd, which contradicts with the principles of agile. In order to make crowd-agile a better working approach, first it is deemed important to identify the challenges practitioners face while working in crowd agile setup. We have conducted an industrial survey and analyzed the data to identify the challenges faced by practitioners. This will help the researchers in further working on the betterment of crowd-agile environment.

Keywords: agile methodology, crowd source software development