To provide such a low-touch way to guide teams, Mike Cohn offers this model: Containers, Differences, and Exchanges (CDE). In a nutshell, agile managers exert control over the following: • The containers within which teams work, specifically their physical location, organizational position, and team assignment • The differences between the backgrounds of team members, going for a mix of people that will yield a high level of team interaction • Transformational exchanges in which team members are changed or influenced by their differences and interactions (Cohn 2009)
