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
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.
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.
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.
How can I help?
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