Nice article: Agile Top-Down
Historical article · Originally published July 29, 2005; technical details may be outdated.
"There's a recent thread on the Scrum list about how an executive or highly-placed manager could get Agile going. I've been one of those guys, and I know a bit about Agile, and here's how I'd proceed. First, focus management attention on cyclic delivery of running tested software. Second, provide the resources to learn how to do that."
http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/AgileTopDown.htm
Ron Jeffries
http://www.xprogramming.com
Ron Jeffries
If you a manager in the right place - you can probably do these things in your company.