Still doing a lot of Agile without becoming meaningfully more agile?

Less Friction. More Traction.

I help product, technology, and transformation leaders close the curtain on Agile Transformation Theater and improve product and portfolio speed to market and business impact.

I don't start with rituals. I start with the real constraint.

Yuval Yeret portrait

Leaders I have helped move beyond theater at

Akamai
Aquant.ai
CA Technologies / Computer Associates
CyberArk
Informatica
NICE Actimize
Planview / LeanKit
Rapid RTC
Siemens Digital Industries
TriZetto
Amdocs
IDEMIA
NEC Americas
Barrel One Collective
ButcherBox
Cotopaxi
P&G / Gillette
Biogen
Dyno Therapeutics
Hansa BioPharma
IDEXX
Molecule to Medicine Bio
BNY Mellon / Eagle Investments
CME Group
DLL Group
Akamai
Aquant.ai
CA Technologies / Computer Associates
CyberArk
Informatica
NICE Actimize
Planview / LeanKit
Rapid RTC
Siemens Digital Industries
TriZetto
Amdocs
IDEMIA
NEC Americas
Barrel One Collective
ButcherBox
Cotopaxi
P&G / Gillette
Biogen
Dyno Therapeutics
Hansa BioPharma
IDEXX
Molecule to Medicine Bio
BNY Mellon / Eagle Investments
CME Group
DLL Group

What this looks like in practice

On-time delivery restored

Budgeted hours dropped by 25% while delivery reliability came back.

Capacity expanded without chaos

One client grew from one active contract to nine in parallel after fixing flow and ownership.

Less coordination tax

Applying flow principles has helped organizations cut coordination overhead by 10-40%.

Agile Theater

What Problem/Challenge Are You Focused On?

Which of these is constraining you from unlocking faster delivery of higher-impact value for your organization?

These are the patterns I usually see when organizations are focused on agile activities without becoming more agile. What I refer to as "Agile Theater":

  • Delivery is still slower and less predictable than leadership expected.
  • Too many initiatives are in flight, and priorities keep colliding.
  • Teams are doing agile activities, but strategy, portfolio, product, and delivery still do not flow.
  • There is a lot of AI activity, but very little business impact.

Real Agility

What better looks like

  • A clear top priority replaces the laundry list of "priorities."
  • Teams are organized to minimize dependencies.
  • Architecture evolves to empower teams to be more self-sufficient.
  • Leaders act as stewards of flow, making decisions that keep value moving.
  • Work is organized around outcomes, creating strategic connection and maneuvering flexibility.

The organization delivers more value, sooner, with less friction.

From AI Activity to Impact

AI does not fix a broken operating model. It exposes it.

If your portfolio is noisy, your priorities are unstable, and your teams are drowning in dependencies, AI will amplify that. You will get more activity, more demos, more experimentation theater, and not enough business impact.

What changes the game is treating AI like a product and operating-model challenge. Clear ownership, real outcomes, fast feedback, and leaders willing to make decisions that keep value moving.

Explore AI Strategy to Execution

How I Help Leaders Close The Curtain on Agile Transformation Theater and Shift Towards Real Agility

A lot of advisors stay in the safe zone. Team rituals. Training. Framework rollouts. Better lipstick for the same pig.

That is not my thing.

I look for the real constraint. Sometimes it is at the team level. Often it is upstream, in priorities, funding, topology, architecture, or leadership behavior. That is where I go.

No big-batch transformation theater

I am not coming in to run a giant transformation program and keep it alive for 18 months. I look for the smallest intervention that can create real traction now.

“Rather than imposing a rigid playbook, Yuval helped us co-design a process that fit our reality...”

I treat change like a product

We are not rolling out a model. We are figuring out what actually fits your organization. We inspect, adapt, and improve until we find change-organization fit.

“He did not just teach us agile. He helped us think differently about how we work together and make decisions.”

I help leaders become stewards of change

If leaders keep overloading the system, shifting priorities every week, and rewarding activity over outcomes, team coaching will not save you. Leaders need to become stewards of flow and change early on.

“Most consultants tell you the answer; Yuval asks the right questions so you find the answer yourself.”

I go upstream to the real constraint

When delivery is slow, I do not automatically blame teams. I look at how work is funded, how many things are in flight, how teams are organized, where dependencies live, and whether the architecture helps or hurts.

“By reorganizing scattered teams into clear value streams... we turned a reactive culture into one built on flow and ownership.”

I connect leadership intent to delivery reality

A transformation is not real if executives talk strategy, teams run rituals, and nobody can explain how work flows from one to the other. I work with leaders to connect enterprise decisions to what actually happens in delivery.

“He does a brilliant job at highlighting ways to connect and integrate enterprise delivery practices... at a senior leadership level.”

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Want a clearer read on your situation first?

If you want a useful read on your situation before a conversation, take the scorecard. It will help you see whether you are dealing with Theater, Factory, or Lab dynamics, and where the current constraint likely sits.

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Less theater. More flow, focus, and real operating results.

What clients say when the work lands

“Yuval is, without question, the best Lean/Agile partner I have ever worked with. By reorganizing scattered teams into clear value streams and introducing practical, context-aware agility, we turned a reactive culture into one built on flow and ownership. Within months, budgeted hours dropped by 25%, on-time delivery was restored, and our capacity expanded from one active contract to nine in parallel. Quality and customer satisfaction soared, and engineers finally had the headspace to innovate again.”
Steve Lizotte

Steve Lizotte

Engineering Leadership | Transformation | Predictability | Scale · Idemia

“Yuval would be an asset to any C-suite as they contemplate adapting their organization to a rapidly evolving technology landscape that is likely to disrupt many businesses. We owe a debt of gratitude to Yuval for giving us the best training and a strong start on our journey toward Product-Oriented Teams and outcomes-focused delivery.”
Sunil Cutinho

Sunil Cutinho

Chief Information Officer · CME Group

“Yuval gave us the foundation to mature as a company. Before his involvement, our growth had outpaced our ability to deliver — releases were dragging, priorities were unclear, and business and engineering often felt misaligned. Under his guidance, we rebuilt focus and momentum. Our release cadence improved dramatically, cross-team alignment became the norm, and teams rediscovered their confidence. Faster delivery, better collaboration, and a stronger sense that everyone was finally pulling in the same direction.”
Glen Demetrioff

Glen Demetrioff

President & CEO · Rapid-RTC

“Rather than imposing a rigid playbook, Yuval helped us co-design a process that fit our reality — collaborative, disciplined, and adaptable. His patience, persistence, and ability to connect agile principles to real product challenges transformed a hesitant team into a confident one. The result was a faster, more focused innovation process that became a model for future projects.”
Cindy Grönberg Moldin

Cindy Grönberg Moldin

ex-P&G, ex-Deloitte · Gillette | P&G

“Most consultants tell you the answer; Yuval asks the right questions so you find the answer yourself. He has a knack for identifying the concepts and language that are missing and getting us to discuss them in a way that gives us a chance to improve how we work together.”
Tyson Bertmaring

Tyson Bertmaring

COO | Head of Stewardship · Dyno Therapeutics

“Yuval has a deep understanding and vast knowledge of Agile — but more than that, he understands how organizations and people actually operate. He brought clarity, practical structure, and data-driven insight that improved flow, focus, and collaboration. <strong>His work directly contributed to multi-million-dollar wins by turning theory into measurable progress.</strong> Throughout our work together, Yuval constantly provided original and thoughtful perspectives on the complex challenges we faced, helping us turn theory into measurable progress.”
Roy Emek

Roy Emek

VP Engineering · Informatica

“Yuval consistently bridges the gap between agile theory and practical impact. In an industry often distracted by frameworks and buzzwords, he stands out for grounding his work in real outcomes. Yuval does not just teach modern practices — he helps shape them, proving their value through every engagement.”
Jon Terry

Jon Terry

COO | Co-Founder · Leankit

“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. He can swiftly move from strategy/blueprints to training a class, implementing methods/processes all the way to helping us through tough issues through hands-on coaching. This makes Yuval very valuable and influential in our journey towards lean.”
Adam Magen

Adam Magen

VP Operational Excellence · Siemens Digital Industries

“Yuval provided very practical and grounded feedback along the way. He does a brilliant job at highlighting ways to connect and integrate enterprise delivery practices so that the activities of a delivery team can be understood at a senior leadership level while also building a clear way to incorporate OKRs at every level. His leadership helped accelerate the product leadership capabilities in our division.”
Steve Ishmael

Steve Ishmael

Senior Director Product Management · CME Group

“Yuval is an endless source of knowledge in management methods, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum etc. Always up to date with most recent thoughts and trends. With Yuval we managed to <strong>spread agile across our 3,000+ people organization</strong>, stabilizing delivery across massive global business units.”
Yaki Koren

Yaki Koren

PMO Agility Leader · Amdocs

“Yuval has a broad range of knowledge when it comes to agile and how companies should and can implement it. He is great at providing helpful resources for understanding the best practices. I would recommend Yuval as an Agile Coach, Trainer, and Advisor anytime.”
Gabriel Columbus

Gabriel Columbus

Senior Transformation Coach · Wells Fargo

“Your posts and advisory have been immensely beneficial. Your writing is clear, engaging, and highly relevant. By applying your flow principles, we have seen organizations <strong>reduce coordination overhead by 10-40%</strong>, allowing teams to finally focus on building rather than negotiating dependencies.”
Tamar Lavi

Tamar Lavi

Enterprise Agile Coach

Case Studies

From enterprise software to healthcare and biotech: fewer handoffs, clearer priorities, faster outcomes.

How this shows up in the real world

Spectrum Healthcare - Organizing around Patient Outcomes To Amplify Business Impact

Case Study

Spectrum Healthcare - Organizing around Patient Outcomes To Amplify Business Impact

IT-business friction Slow time-to-market Faster delivery Better business outcomes

Spectrum Healthcare needed IT, clinical, and operational leaders to move critical cross-cutting initiatives faster. Yuval helped launch a cross-functional SAFe-based operating cadence that improved collaboration, sped delivery on telemedicine and clinic initiatives, and strengthened business outcomes.

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NEC - From Project Chaos to Predictable High-Throughput Flow

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NEC - From Project Chaos to Predictable High-Throughput Flow

Project chaos Unpredictable delivery Predictable delivery Higher throughput

NEC was dealing with project chaos, weak product focus, and low predictability in a high-stakes engineering environment. Yuval helped combine Scrum, Kanban, and leadership-level transparency to create steadier flow and a stronger foundation for scale.

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Molecule-to-Medicine: Improving BioTech Incubator Collaboration, Traction and Agility

Case Study

Molecule-to-Medicine: Improving BioTech Incubator Collaboration, Traction and Agility

Scientific uncertainty Cross-functional silos Faster innovation Better alignment

Molecule-to-Medicine Bio needed diverse R&D teams and portfolio companies to collaborate better under scientific uncertainty. Yuval introduced pragmatic Scrum and Kanban patterns, shared visibility, and iterative learning loops that improved traction, risk management, and cross-company alignment.

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Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs at an AI-Biotech Scale-up

Case Study

Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs at an AI-Biotech Scale-up

Cross-functional silos Coordination drag Faster innovation Better alignment

Dyno Therapeutics needed its biology, ML, and data teams to work as one innovation system rather than as siloed functions. Yuval helped redesign around shared outcomes and empirical feedback loops, reducing coordination drag and accelerating learning.

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Gillette Case Study: From Multi-Year Silos to a Record-Time Product Launch

Case Study

Gillette Case Study: From Multi-Year Silos to a Record-Time Product Launch

Slow time-to-market Cross-functional silos Faster product launch Better decision-making

Gillette faced intense launch pressure on a next-generation razor across R&D, commercial, and manufacturing teams. Yuval introduced a pragmatic scaled-Scrum approach that surfaced risks early and helped the team launch faster with stronger market response.

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CA: Unifying Marketing & Sales Silos Through Marketing Agility at Scale

Case Study

CA: Unifying Marketing & Sales Silos Through Marketing Agility at Scale

Cross-functional silos Work overload Better alignment Faster delivery

CA's marketing organization was trapped in silos, approvals, and overload that slowed revenue impact. Yuval helped leaders form cross-functional agile marketing teams around value streams, improving responsiveness, empowerment, and pipeline performance.

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Get fresh insights that might help you tackle your current agility and future of work challenges. These are based on my continuous work in the trenches with leaders like you.

Why leaders bring me in

I grew up in engineering and R&D, but what kept pulling my attention was never just the code. It was the system around the code: priorities, handoffs, decision rights, and leadership behavior. I know Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, product operating models, and AI operating questions well enough to use them without worshipping them.

My job is not to defend a framework or preserve the transformation story. My job is to help you see the system, name the constraint, and improve what actually matters.

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