images

Evaluating Executive Support and Team Willingness

The first and most important step is to get senior management backing. Without support from the very top, it is generally impossible to make significant changes.

—Watts Humphrey

Two important criteria for a successful agile implementation are support from your top executive and willingness to apply Agile by the team. By “executive,” I mean your most senior manager within the scope of deployment. If you are looking to initiate an agile enterprise change, then you need top-level executive sponsorship and management support for the transformation. Because moving to an agile culture represents a ...

Get Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.