To get the full benefits of Agile you need multifunctional teams and to be organised around products. These require fundamental organisation redesign. Companies who choose to ignore or water down this fact will always struggle to realise the full benefits of Agile.

The most popular and proven method of kick starting your adoption of Agile into your organisation is to start with a pilot project, see how it works for you (and where it doesn't), and to then scale out from there.

There’s a big push currently (notably from the likes of Gartner) for IT departments to create a bi-modal capability. This dual-mode of operating is in response to the digital shift we’ve seen in recent years which has repositioned the role of IT in the organisation.