Sell your IT project by helping the organization identify their most critical processes and most challenging gaps. Plan sprints with short-term ROI in mind.  Assist managers in developing and implementing an action plan to ensure high priority design and readiness issues are resolved early, generating a quick payback.  Separate organizational issues from technical problems and direct efforts appropriately.  Even with complex organizational or work process issues involving integration of departments, sites and external partners, long project cycles can no longer be justified.  Learn to move beyond habitual project and change management methodologies to whole systems design processes and rapid deployments.