We'd recently started on a very large Public Sector COTS implementation project that was significantly behind schedule and over budget. "Agile" had been sold as the solution to their problems.
In summary - We were in trouble.
I have a short attention span - textbooks are not my thing. So instead - here's a blog.
Can you run projects of this size, complexity and historically bureaucratically hindered, using agile techniques?
Apparently So. Go figure.