User experience of agile project: I have never known a project to develop at such a rate."

The key to risk reduction is having skilled, experienced personnel on-the-ground working within your project team. The value of this experience on a day-to-day basis will ensure fast and effective problem resolution and will prove critical in the success of your project.
Coaching is the provision of an experienced individual into your project team either full or part-time. The coach offers the dual benefits of guidance and support in the use of Agile methods while also working within your team as a skilled practitioner.
IndigoBlue has a long held view that incremental delivery, and the supporting incremental strategy, is core to the success of Agile management. This tenet is the basis for our governance framework and our approach to managing Agile at scale. Last week I was presented with an illustration of this in the shape of one of our customers that has recently piloted the use of Agile in their office in the States.