How to implement an Agile project management successfully?

According to me every body who wants to go agile either they would have read a book or a journal on Agile project management and then you are about to give it a shot. You get the team together and then layout every possible procedure and exception path for the new Agile approach. Then after couple of days you see the team getting back to their old days and habits, it is in human nature to go back which is comfortable, and resist change that is the way they have been doing all these days. So take a few fundamental Agile concepts, such as iterations and a product backlog and implement them first. Let the project team ease into the transition. And then at the end have a meeting like what they learned, suggest other Agile practices as ways to counter the challenges that the team faced. Before long you will have implemented a full Agile lifecycle within your enterprise.  This was the way we made transition  at our workplace and it is yielding great results.  And this will help the organization in a long way.

To me, when it comes to implementing agile, no matter whether you are a project manager serving internal or external customers, selecting the right one to begin your Agile development is the key. This is due to one of the fundamentals of Agile, where having constant customer involvement throughout the entire lifecycle. It is essential that you find a customer who is willing to make themselves readily available to your team, it will be even better if they would consider co-locating with your team for the duration of the project.

Fundamentally, with strong customer involvement your chances for success with Agile Project Management increase dramatically.

Ok so everybody is talking agile, so even we'll go agile, this is wrong what they are doing, not every methodology should be rigidly implemented without careful consideration as to whether each and every practice is applicable to one's environment or not.

As a project manager we all know that one should consider the company culture and the operating environment before planning a project and the same holds true for implementing a new methodology like Agile.

One should carefully consider the major facets of Agile and determine whether the practice will/not work within your environment before implementing it out to your team. Also, don’t be afraid to modify practices to fit your organizations needs as well. You can still be true to the intent of Agile even if you implement is a modified approach. So being practical is very important, it is not that one should implement everything.