Agile methods, used properly, make this simpler (tactically) if all parties engage, collaborate and speak unambiguously in the language of the business.

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Efforts to put in place a new role for managers as enablers of self-organizing teams, new Agile methods of coordinating work, new values of trust and transparency and continuous improvement, and horizontal communications will inevitably fall foul of the prevailing mental model of how the C-suite expects the firm to work.

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We do this by incorporating lessons and assignments in agile development, iterating user interface by using emerging lean user experience methods and well grounded user research methods like contextual design.

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