The development process is hard. You have a beautiful CMS implementation of your redesign and restructuring ready to go, but all of a sudden, you end up with a mess under the hood. What happened? You're frustrated, you question it, but it's too late and the damage is done. As content strategists, we can do a lot to mitigate common pitfalls if we learn to productively and efficiently work alongside technologists to deliver user-friendly CMS experiences. This talk expands on how to avoid common mistakes and increase strong content management strategies across departments. In this session, learn what content strategists should do to 1) embrace the flexibility of the Agile process while continuing to deliver high-level content management strategies and content models; 2) pivot quickly with a team to build models and schemas that facilitate efficient development, migration and content production work; and 3) become a tech team player by learning database architecture skills to help implement content management strategies alongside developers. This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 1, 2015.