How does an organization go Agile without falling into the hype cycle associated with the term?

Thanks for the feedback Sergio. I think that sometime all the training in the world will not keep an organization from falling into the hype. Right now I hear the word Agile in almost every meeting I attend and only about a third of them are using it correctly. It is very frustrating and hard to manage.

You right Tobe. That is because I am actively participating into each forum I can to say "hey, there is an untold storie about agile". And that includes performing conferences inside the PMI World Tour. It is sad for me to spend my time explaining to people who hired me to help them to implement agile about what agile really is mainly to set up their expectatives correctly. I think that the general confusion in the market do not help to people like me that are working with agile from the very begining. My recommendation is to perform a gap analysis to understand your actual organization situtation. I wrote other article about that but what I use as a tool to do that is Tom Peter`s Seven S model. The key here is to understand the whole organization from the systemic point of view so, each time you introduce something into the organization, the whole organizational architecture (components plus relations) will be impacted.