Summary

• 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.