About Yeret Agility

Yuval Yeret

Globally Recognized Expert on Scaling w/ Agility

I help leaders looking to improve traction and outcomes in their organizations. I specialize in applying agility principles and practices on new frontiers while minimizing “Process Theater”. 

Here’s what I’m up to these days:

  • Strategic advisory on developing and applying an agile product-oriented operating model at scale. I leverage my experience in the trenches to help develop Scrum.org Agile Product Operating Model.
  • Helping leaders on the frontiers of agility apply principles in context, leverage relevant aspects of frameworks, and shape the future of agility. As the world’s sole Professional Scrum Trainer who’s also a SAFe Fellow/SPCT, I provide these leaders a rare mix of breadth and depth of expertise when it comes to scaling with agility across a variety of domains.
  • I help leaders looking to improve traction and outcomes in their organizations. I specialize in applying agility principles and practices on new frontiers while minimizing “Process Theater”. 
  • Actively sharing insights and thought leadership in my Scaling w/ Agility newsletter
  • Delivering private training, often combined with Agility  Strategy follow-up workshops to tackle real-world challenges and move from training into action. 

Back Story

Learn More About My 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 in the 90s, my first formal exposure to Agile was in 2006, when my organization struggled 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 I was good at and passionate about figuring out how to apply agile techniques to help stabilize and scale product/IT organizations, so I essentially pivoted from the field of computer operating systems to human/organizational operating systems.

I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with world-class thought leaders in this space and helping lead 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
Explore My Current Focus Areas
  • 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.

Hear from Leaders about Their Agility Journey With Me

Agility Journey Case Studies

Helping Leaders improve traction and outcomes in diverse and complex environments

I work with diverse companies ranging from startups, incubators, accelerators, and scale-ups to some of the world’s most prominent technology and consumer brands. I leverage this diverse experience to help my clients find the right path for their agility journey. Very often, leaders approach me when they want to leverage agility in domains beyond the beaten path and are cautious of both “by the book” dogma as well as losing the intent when customizing/watering down the ideas. Here are some of my recent projects:

Bringing Business, Clinical Operations and IT together to deliver faster better Business Outcomes at Spectrum Healthcare

Overview Spectrum Healthcare, a multispecialty medical practice in Maine, wanted to improve operational efficiency across surgical operations, quality, marketing, clinical operations, physiotherapy champions, compliance, medical staff services, billing, and IT. IT, clinical and operational leaders aimed to enhance collaboration across departments and improve their ability to drive operational changes effectively. When/Why Spectrum was looking at …

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From Fingerprints to Frameworks: NEC’s Agile Journey with Scrum and Kanban

The journey for NEC with Scrum, Kanban, and agility illustrates the effectiveness of these practices in transforming complex, real-world environments. By starting small, defining their products, having greater focus by having teams understand what their products were, and engaging leadership in transparent decision-making, NEC addressed immediate operational challenges and laid a strong foundation for sustained …

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Improving BioTech Incubator Collaboration, Traction and Agility

M:M Bio, a collaborative ecosystem of oncology and immuno-oncology biotechs based in Oxford, wanted to revolutionize its approach to drug discovery and R&D. With companies ranging from early-stage discovery to clinical development, the organization needed to improve how teams worked together, manage long lead times, and pivot quickly based on experimental data—all while keeping their …

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Gillette – Designing and Productizing a New Razor with Scrum

Summary I partnered with Gillette’s R&D and Commercial leadership to leverage Scrum for designing the Gillette Exfoliating Razor. This initiative included several multi-disciplinary teams involving technical, research, and commercial teams collaborating on one scaled Scrum borrowing patterns from the Nexus framework. Using Scrum to quickly learn and validate on the key leap of faith assumptions …

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Computer Associates – Marketing Agility at Scale

Standing up Agility at Scale for a marketing organization involving multiple marketing and sales functions organized in multi-disciplinary teams empowered to own their funnel and run fast iterative cycles to deliver and optimize marketing/sales plays. The teams collaborated as an “Agile Marketing Train” to improve alignment and synergy by marketing and selling the product portfolio …

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Idemia – Using Agile to Improve Delivery

Idemia builds the systems you experience when you get your Driver’s license and go through the TSA Precheck lines. I helped Idemia leverage agile to help it deliver customer programs and build its future products. This included standing up team-level agility in several groups, standing up a lean agile center-of-excellence, organizing stable SAFe ARTs organized …

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CyberArk – Achieving Real Agility at a Scaleup Building Hard-core CyberSecurity Products

Trained and advised leaders and teams in the product and engineering organization at CyberArk on their scaling journey – leveraging product-stream Kanban systems to understand and accelerate flow across teams and then supporting/coaching the viral growth of Kanban systems by individual teams. Coached the organization’s leaders in the process of reorganizing around value – moving …

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Work With Yuval

I help leaders take their organization from agile theater to real agility outcomes at scale, spanning the organization. Much of my work is on the agile frontier – extending agility to the company level, non-software product and business development, and other exciting new applications.

I’m based in the Boston area. My clients are all over the world.

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