Are You Struggling to Scale Your Organization?

I help you and your teams break through inflection points and scale smarter, improving flow and traction – through minimal, principles-based agility.

(without the dogma that too often comes with it)

Agility from First Principles – Outcome-focused Interventions – Be Agile About Agile –
Globally Recognized Expertise
Improve how you develop your Products, Portfolios, Strategic Change Initiatives, and Company

Let's Discuss Your Agility Goals and Challenges – Book a Call to See if We're the Right Fit.

SEND ME NO BS INSIGHTS ON AGILITY

Give me 5 minutes 5 times a week, and I’ll give you a thoughtful, reflective, pragmatic, principled take on
how to work through your inflection points, maintaining and improving traction on product and company development initiatives.

Yuval is a no-nonsense, straight-talker, and I unconditionally recommend him to anyone serious about agile transformation. Partnering with him has had dramatic results.

Steve Lizotte

VP Engineering, NEC Americas

Do any of these delivery/execution challenges sound familiar?

Complex, cross-functional business initiatives take too long, get stuck, and often fail to deliver the outcomes.
The organization is unscalable – it gets slower and slower rather than faster and faster as we grow.
People feel like cogs in an unsustainable machine, want to return to old times, and the best ones start to leave in frustration.
We spend months and $$$ executing plans – yet end up at the same spot.
The organization oscillates between chaos and bureaucracy. (sometimes, it feels like both are taking place at the same time)
Despite “doing agile,” nothing is really agile. We have people with agile role names (such as Scrum Master) who act as process police and spend time estimating, playing poker, creating burndown charts, and configuring JIRA. The focus is on compliance rather than outcomes.

Are you interested in Agility but refusing to buy into the Agile Theater?

You believe your organization needs to be more agile, but you think there’s too much dogma and process BS surrounding it. (Maybe you’ve tried it before …)

You’re looking for a pragmatic path toward agility that applies laser-focused interventions.

You don’t want an army of coaches to descend on your organization. You have great people and leaders; they know what they’re doing.

You know you have limited time to get this right, so you’re looking for focused guidance to minimize risk and take advantage of shortcuts.

Approach Agility with Agility

Align Around Value: We’ll identify your strategic priorities (what to focus on and avoid). We’ll figure out how to organize in a way that streamlines work towards these priorities.
Tackle Critical Business/Product Initiatives: We’ll tackle your most complex initiatives with a lightweight agile/flow-based operating system where cross-functional teams are oriented around outcomes and are empowered to run fast iterative cycles measured by metrics that matter.
Double Loop Inspect and Adapt: We’ll learn what works and what doesn’t and adjust ways of working to fit your context – evolving your operating system/model as needed.

Let's Discuss Your Agility Goals and Challenges – Book a Call to See if We're the Right Fit.

Real Leaders, Real Results

Yuval helped me bring the science and mindset of agile into the Biotech world. He advised me and my team on how to operationalize the agile best practices and apply them pragmatically and practically to our unique context – with a focus on transparency, empiricism, shared understanding, and empowerment. Yuval brings a wealth of experience across many industries and is a real partner in our journey.

Vincenza Nigro – Global Franchise Lead – Hansa Biopharma

By having Yuval on board, we found not just an experienced professional but also a partner in our lean journey with a passion and commitment to coach and guide us until we achieve our goals. Yuval’s vast knowledge and experience along with keen analytical skills enable him to fit the lean principles into our organization’s DNA and to help us overcome difficulties and constraints without risking our short-term business targets. Yuval has many capabilities which make him highly versatile. He can swiftly move from strategy/blueprints to training a class, implementing methods/processes all the way to helping us through some tough issues through hands-on coaching. This makes Yuval very valuable and influential in our journey towards lean.”

Adam Magen – VP Operational Excellence – Siemens Digital Industries

Yuval is the best Lean/Agile partner I have ever worked with. Over the 2+ years of our working relationship, he has consistently brought a pragmatic and refreshingly direct approach to problem-solving, coaching, and training. He leans in, and rather than prescribing a canned academic/textbook solution, he works with us to truly understand our core problems and then prescribes a tailored solution that works best for us. We have measured significant improvements in schedule adherence, quality, and customer satisfaction. The results have been dramatic. In addition to working with our core development teams, Yuval has presented Lean/Agile fundamentals to senior executives within my organization and customers who participate in our Customer Advisory Board meetings. He is a no-nonsense straight-talker, and I unconditionally recommend him to anyone serious about agile transformation.

Steve Lizotte – VP Engineering – NEC Americas

When I asked, “Who should guide us through our Agile journey?” “Yuval” was the reply, followed by the reasons. What I have experienced has been consistent. Yuval is knowledgeable and guides you by asking the right questions at the right time to get you and your team thinking. He has a knack for identifying the missing concepts and language and getting us to talk about those in such a way that we can improve how we work together. Most consultants tell you the answer; Yuval asks the right questions so you find the answer yourself.

Tyson Bertmaring – Head of Stewardship – Dyno Therapeutics

Too many to list them all here… See More

3 WAYS I CAN HELP

Strategic Advisory

Most of my clients are the heroes of their own agility journey. They engage me as a strategic guide where I work with leaders on designing, implementing, and calibrating relevant capabilities.

Advisory / Coaching Services

Training

Enable your team in high-impact training workshops with follow-up implementation/application sessions.

I bring my unique, pragmatic, no-dogma style to all curriculums. (Including SAFe and Professional Scrum)

High Impact Private Training Services

Fractional Leader

Need a bit more attention and hands on leadership? I can take on a fractional Agility Champion on your leadership team

Fractional Agility Leadership

Let's Discuss Your Agility Goals and Challenges – Book a Call to See if We're the Right Fit.

Globally Recognized Expert on Scaling w/ Agility
^{– Yuval Yeret}

I’m Yuval Yeret. As an agility coach/consultant/trainer, I help leaders pursue real and pragmatic agility at scale. Leaders reach out to me when looking for ways to improve product development as well as when they want to apply agile ideas towards overall operational excellence and business scaling/improvement.

The engagements I thrive in involve taking an agile, pragmatic path to an agile organization. I’m based in Boston. My clients are all over.

Back Story

I spent the first half of my career leading IT and product development – especially in teams focused on operating systems and networks.

While I half-joke that we were practicing DecSecOps in the Israeli Air Force way back in the 90s, my first formal exposure to Agile was in 2006 – when my organization was struggling to get its act together.

I learned about Scrum and Kanban, and we leveraged them to improve our ability to build a quality, valuable product and improve our time to market.

I realized that figuring out how to apply agile techniques to help stabilize and scale product/IT organizations was something I was good at and passionate about – and I essentially pivoted from the field of computer operating systems to human/organizational operating systems.

I’ve had the privilege to collaborate with world-class thought leaders in this space and helped leading technology companies, future and current unicorns, and future-leaning IT organizations improve their ability to innovate, their time to market, and the value they create for their customers.

Thought Leadership

Establishing Kanban as an alternative/complementary path towards agility at the team and organizational level (some call me “Mr Kanban Israel” due to my involvement in creating a thriving enterprise kanban ecosystem in the Israeli tech sector and for Holy Land Kanban)
Co-developing Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum with Kanban to help bring Kanban/Flow to more teams and organizations.
Bringing invitation/pull-based change into the Scaled Agile Framework world.
Co-creating the icAgile Agile Marketing curriculum and establishing best practices for applying Agile Marketing at scale.

My Current Focus

Pragmatic Scaling – Leveraging principles and practices from SAFe, Kanban, Nexus, EBM.
Fixing Agile – helping organizations evolve beyond mechanical or flailing attempts at achieving agility.
Agile Beyond Software – using agile approaches to design and bring to market physical products (think the latest Gillette razor) or cyber-physical systems combining digital and physical into one experience.
Agility for Business Challenges – leveraging agile ideas for organizational health/scaling – e.g. through frameworks such as OKRs.

Credentials

Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer

SAFe Fellow

SAFe SPCT

High Impact Engagements

I work with diverse companies ranging from startups, incubators, accelerators, and scaleups
to some of the world’s most prominent technology and consumer brands.