If you've been trying to change your organization so that your projects are more agile, you may have noticed several problems: it's difficult to have people such as product management, senior management, even functional managers work and manage in a way that makes sense for your agile project; you're working with other parts of a large program that isn't agile; you have a geographically distributed team; your management wants to know at the beginning when the project will end; or even that the project team does not share a common vision of what "done" means.

You are not alone. Johanna Rothman explores common organization, management, team, and individual team member issues, such as your stand-up meetings are sit-down-and-forever meetings, your managers still think multitasking is a good idea, someone (or the whole team) thinks overtime is a good idea, or you have unranked requirements. Learn to make the changes needed for agile more palatable and help people work with you in a way that helps your projects proceed.