Agile Project Management: How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements

Senior management must understand the linkages between business planning, portfolio management, and tactical project execution.

In the agile project environment, there is a two-way ripple effect between the high-level business strategy and the tactical project portfolio when either of them changes.

Functional managers should consider outsourcing as a means to staff agile projects, more so than for classic ones.

Agile project teams constantly push the organizational envelope and uncover new organizational obstacles to overcome.

The capability of an organization to reinvent itself is an enabler of agile PM, as well as overall organizational agility.

The silo mentality is a killer of organizational reinvention.

Laying out the big picture of the agile project will help all levels of management understand the need for organizational reinvention.