Q&A: How can I transform my corporation to agile?

Question

Devesh Kumar from Thomson Reuters asks:
I am being asked to setup agile in totality. I know to setup agile development teams. What I don’t know is how to handle Agile budgeting, How to migrate VPs to agile in higher management, what must change in HR to support agile, and what other organizational policies must change. Can you help?

Answer

You raise some complicated issues, and different people will have different experiences that can help. I bet you have been inundated with private emails, offering consulting help. I’ll just spew this stuff publicly. Continue reading