Agile Readiness is designed to provide guidance to the manager or business leader in establishing a successful environment to enable fast moving agile and lean project methods focused on business systems transformation. The struggle that managers and executives face is how to make agile and lean methods successful when working beyond software development; this book uses simple ground floor experiences to illustrate the practices and behaviors necessary for success. The reader will discover organizational strategies that build strong teams, an environment of trust, and project selection and planning strategies to create an environment of enablement in which agile and lean teams thrive.