
About Yuval
I help leaders improve focus, flow, and speed to impact.
Whether you are launching better products faster, delivering strategic initiatives, or operationalizing AI, I help you build an operating system that creates better outcomes without burnout or theater.
Modern Work Coach for the AI Age — better outcomes, faster, happier.
Who I help and what changes
I’ve always been fascinated by designing and optimizing networks of people, not just computers. That systems lens is how I help leaders improve flow, focus, empowerment, and impact.
CME Group
Helped transformation, product, and technology leaders build scalable product culture across multiple portfolios.
Gillette
Coached R&D and commercial leaders to shape the operating approach behind the Labs Exfoliating Razor and improve innovation flow.
CA Technologies
Partnered with marketing and sales leadership to improve collaboration, traction, and impact at scale.
Siemens, CyberArk, Amdocs, HP Software
Worked with delivery, engineering, and R&D leaders to improve time to market, quality, and product impact through enterprise-level flow.
Global teams and communities
Improved flow awareness in hundreds of teams and organizations through practical guidance, workshops, and published playbooks.
AI-focused leaders
Helped leaders treat AI as an operating model challenge, not just a tooling upgrade.
My unique point of view
Most advisors specialize in one tool or framework. I work across strategy, product, delivery, and leadership so teams can move from local optimization to enterprise impact.
Outcomes over activity
Most organizations can tell you exactly what they built last quarter. Very few can tell you what changed in the business because of it. The work starts with defining the outcome you're actually trying to move — then designing the minimum system changes to get there.
Flow as a strategic concern
Velocity measures how busy teams are. Cycle time measures how fast value reaches customers. Organizations that manage to velocity optimize for the wrong thing — and end up with fast teams inside a slow system. Flow is a leadership responsibility, not a team metric.
Systems thinking, not symptoms treatment
When delivery is slow, the instinct is to improve the teams. But in most organizations I work with, teams are not the constraint. The constraint is how work gets funded, prioritized, and handed off across boundaries. Fixing the team while leaving the system intact produces faster activity — not faster outcomes.
Product and business in the same room
Product strategy that doesn't connect to commercial goals produces roadmaps leadership doesn't trust. Commercial goals that don't connect to product reality produce commitments teams can't keep. The work is building the translation layer between them — explicit enough to drive decisions.
Speed and predictability together
The conventional trade-off — move fast or be reliable — is usually a symptom of high WIP and unclear ownership, not an inherent tension. Organizations that reduce work in flight and clarify decision rights typically get both: shorter cycle times and more consistent delivery.
AI as operating model work
AI POCs succeed. Scaling them doesn't — not because the models are wrong, but because the operating system around them can't learn fast enough. Clear ownership, outcome-oriented prioritization, and short feedback loops are what turn scattered pilots into compounding capability.
How I got here
My background is in software engineering and R&D leadership. But what kept pulling my attention wasn't the code — it was how people coordinate around complex work. That curiosity led me deep into Scrum, then Kanban (I co-authored the Kanban Guide and co-created Professional Scrum with Kanban), then SAFe (one of fewer than 50 SAFe Fellows globally).
Most advisors plant a flag in one framework and defend it. I went the other direction — because working across all of them revealed something more useful: every framework is solving a real problem, and every framework creates new problems if applied dogmatically. What actually helps organizations is understanding which constraint they're facing and choosing the right tool for it.
Across global exchanges, consumer goods, enterprise software, and product-led scaleups, the same pattern kept appearing: teams asked to move faster while the system around them slowed them down. The constraint was almost never execution. It was how decisions were made, how work was prioritized, how funding flowed, and how many things were in flight at once.
That's what I work on — not which framework to use, but whether the operating system around your teams is capable of delivering the outcomes you actually need.
Are you serious about improving flow, focus, and impact? Let's talk.

"The best agility work is invisible. When it's working, leaders stop talking about frameworks and start talking about outcomes." — Yuval Yeret
Selected contributions & recognition
A few highlights from writing, community contribution, and independent recognition.
Brickell Key Award winner (Lean/Kanban community)
Lean Kanban North America ↗Recognized by the Lean/Kanban community and later served on the award selection committee.
Holy Land Kanban book
Community publication ↗Author of practical guidance grounded in real implementation lessons from the field.
SAFe Invitations series
Yeret Agility / Community articles ↗A practical article series on introducing change through invitation-based leadership patterns.
Scrum guide companion for leaders
Yeret Agility ↗Leadership-focused interpretation of Scrum principles for modern product organizations.
Contributing author and speaker
Scrum.org, Cutter Consortium, conferences ↗Published and presented on flow, portfolio agility, strategic alignment, and evidence-based management.
Scaling with Agility podcast host
Yeret Agility Podcast ↗100+ episodes exploring practical strategy, product, agility, and operating model topics.
Guest appearances
Conversations where I share the journey, hard-earned lessons, and practical guidance for leaders building modern product and delivery organizations.
YouTube guest appearance
Interview: Yuval’s journey and modern agility perspective
A personal conversation covering Yuval’s evolution from engineering leadership to advising organizations on outcomes, flow, and modern management.
Podcast interview
Business Agility Now — Product Operating Model and SAFe
Discussion on balancing scaling frameworks with product operating model thinking.
Podcast interview
SAFe Business Agility Podcast — The Value of Flow
Conversation focused on flow-based improvement in large and complex environments.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Background, approach, and how Yuval works
Who does Yuval Yeret help?
Yuval works with business, product, transformation, and technology leaders who need better focus, faster flow, and stronger business outcomes. He supports both growth-stage companies and complex enterprises.
What outcomes can organizations expect?
Typical outcomes include faster time to market, better strategic alignment, clearer portfolio focus, stronger cross-functional collaboration, and measurable impact from key initiatives.
What makes Yuval's approach different?
Yuval combines systems thinking, lean flow principles, product operating model practices, and pragmatic agile patterns. The focus is not framework theater — it is building healthier decision systems and sustainable delivery performance.
Can Yuval help with AI initiatives?
Yes. Yuval helps leaders operationalize AI as a strategic capability, including prioritization, governance, operating model changes, and flow of value from ideas to outcomes.
Where is Yuval based and does he work globally?
Yuval is based in the Boston area and works globally, both remotely and in person.
Is this only for organizations that are new to agility?
No. Much of the work is with organizations that already adopted agile practices and now want to improve system-level flow, leadership behaviors, and strategic impact.
What clients say
Engagements that changed how organizations deliver — in their own words
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Enterprise Agile Coach
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