place that may help or hinder its transition to agile project management. Executives and senior managers need to determine:
• Degree to which the organisation values innovation and creativity over organisa-tional stability
• Degree to which the organisation can make independent, product-related decisions without consulting other organisations
• The organisation's willingness to accept and work with uncertainty
• The organisation's ability to allocate resources full time to one project rather than assign to multiple projects
• The organisation's ability to understand and embrace multiple approaches to documenting and measuring project progress
• Degree to which the organisation is able to partner with their customers
Assess the Project Portfolio
As previously mentioned, agile approaches are best suited for innovative, explora-tory/experimental, "never-been-done" projects and not the best fit for repetitive, well-documented, low-variability, low-uncertainty, and production-style projects. Executives, senior managers, and project managers/leaders review the project portfolio and divide it into two discrete portfolios by determining which projects are best suited for agile project management and which are suited for traditional project management frameworks.
Assess Project Manager (PM) Readiness
"Are the PMs ready to execute agile projects?" is a question that can be answered by conducting a "Project Manager Readiness" assessment. Executives, business managers, and all project managers need to determine:
• Degree to which the project manager focuses on the customer rather than on following standard project management procedures
• Degree to which the project manager values innovation and practical processes over sticking with the plan
• Degree to which the project manager is comfortable with an uncertain and changing environment
• Project manager's skill and commitment to sharing information as needed with all stakeholders
• Project manager's level of commitment to the team and the willingness to promote team collaboration
• Project manager's ability to motivate the team, delegate, and then get out of the way