Are You Struggling to Achieve Agility at Scale?

I help leaders streamline and accelerate innovation by leveraging flow and product principles and practices

(while avoiding the dogma and process BS of Agile Theater)

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

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.

Has it become almost impossible to deliver meaningful impact?

↳ 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.

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

My Main Focus Areas

Fixing Your Agility

Are Your Agile Ways of Working Causing Frustration and Friction? Imagine tweaking your approach to agility, which will bring a bit of flow, improved outcomes, and even joy. Where its less about Agile Theater and more about agile behaviors that make sense in the context. It might not be easier, but it will feel right. …

Create a Resilient and Anti-Fragile Business Operating System Leveraging Agility

Do You Feel Like Every Challenge Pushes Your Business Closer to the Brink Instead of Making It Stronger?” Does any of this sound familiar? Decision Paralysis: Uncertainty brings your business to a standstill. Teams operate in silos, unable to adapt or innovate. Breakdown Under Pressure: Instead of growing stronger, your systems collapse under stress, leaving …

Scale Agile Without Compromising Agility

Are you trying to scale agility? Are you getting vibes of teaching elephants to dance? Are you leading an enterprise and using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to achieve agility at scale? If you’re here, you might have figured out (maybe the hard way… ) that to succeed with SAFe, it’s essential to have the …

How to use OKRs to align Strategy and Execution at scale without micro-managing

OKRs are an alignment framework designed to to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars, the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind), and other management challenges. To face all of these challenges, OKRs provide organizational alignment and focus. OKRs have the potential to achieve alignment and autonomy at scale …

Agility Strategy Workshop

Are you looking at going Agile but unsure what the right approach is? The Agility Strategy Workshop helps leaders create or re-align their strategy for pursuing agility at scale in their organization, emphasizing intent, principles, context, and a dialogic agile approach for pursuing agility When to use this workshop Are you leading an organization? Are …

Bring Clarity and Traction to Your Product Organization With Product Operations

Do your Product Managers spend more time managing work than maximizing outcomes? The product organization works hard to write artifacts, prioritize roadmaps, and manage deliveries. However, despite good intentions, communication between Product, Engineering, and Design is inconsistent or full of friction. Without clear visibility into product performance and user experience, your product teams are left …

Agile Marketing Workshop

Agile Marketing – The key to faster, more responsive, more impactful marketing More and more CMOs are looking at Agile Marketing as the way to modernize their organization and make it faster and more responsive to the needs of the business. Agile Marketing helps marketers improve their flow, focus, and impact in a dynamic and …

Strategic Alignment and Execution at Scale Leveraging OKRs – OKR Coaching and Training Services

OKR Implementation / Deployment Coaching Discover how to enhance alignment between strategy and execution by mastering the utilization of frameworks like OKRs and Evidence-based Management (EBM). These tools help align strategic priorities and enable multi-disciplinary cross-organization teams to innovate with empowerment. Typical Engagement Here’s what my typical OKR launch/boost engagements look like: You can also …

Professional Scrum and Kanban Training

I help teams and organizations better understand how to use Scrum and Kanban professionally through a wide portfolio of certified Scrum.org training workshops available in person or remotely. I’ve delivered in-house training in organizations such as P&G/Gillette, HP, Intel, CME Group, BNY Melon, GAP and many others. Check out a selection of classes in my …

Steer towards Product-Market-Fit with Lean Startup Coaching

Although the Lean Startup concept seems trivial – it is much more than just calling your initial product an MVP. Running a Build Measure Learn cycle depends on learning how to identify the key assumptions/risks in your business model and figure out ways to test validate/invalidate them as efficiently as possible – hopefully without building …

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

Real Leaders, Real Results

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

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