My Main Focus Areas
Fixing Your Agility
Are your agile ways of working causing frustration and friction? Imagine making a quick tweak in your approach to agility, which will bring a bit of flow, improved outcomes, and even joy. 1 Agile Tweak is a pragmatic, outcome-oriented minimum viable coaching engagement comprised of some preparation work we will collaborate on and a 45-minute …
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 …
Overcome Scaling Challenges and Regain Traction Using Product Thinking and Patterns.
Are you frustrated that you can’t get anything significant done in your business? Are cross-functional initiatives doomed from the get-go? Have you spent months and $$$ executing plans that did not achieve the outcomes you desired? More and more businesses are applying the principles used to build products—empowered cross-functional teams, aligned autonomy, and evidence-based empiricism—to …
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 …
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 …
Product/R&D Agility
Are you struggling to maintain agility while scaling/growing your organization? Do you need to disrupt yourself before you get disrupted? Improve your ability to innovate, your time to market, and value creation by leveraging Agile/DevOps principles and practices as appropriate in your context. I’ve helped dozens of product/R&D organizations of various sizes in a variety …
Scale w/ SAFe Without Compromising Agility
Trusted partner for your Scaling journey Are you leading an Enterprise looking at SAFe? If you’re here, you might have figured out (maybe the hard way… ) that to succeed with SAFe, it’s really important to have the right partner. You realize that SPCs are a dime a dozen, and if you want real expertise …
My Services
Strategic Advisory
Most of my clients engage me in an ongoing strategic advisory/coaching role where I work with leaders and teams on designing, implementing, and calibrating relevant capabilities.
I’m also available for one-time / on-demand strategic consultations
KIND WORDS FROM CLIENTS
Yuval helped me bring the science and mindset of agile into the Biotech world. He advised me and my team on how to operationalize the agile best practices and apply them pragmatically and practically to our unique context – with a focus on transparency, empiricism, shared understanding, and empowerment. Yuval brings a wealth of experience across many industries and is a real partner in our journey.
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. Yuval’s vast knowledge and experience along with keen analytical skills enable him to fit the lean principles into our organization’s DNA and to help us overcome difficulties and constraints without risking our short-term business targets. Yuval has many capabilities which make him highly versatile. He can swiftly move from strategy/blueprints to training a class, implementing methods/processes all the way to helping us through some tough issues through hands-on coaching. This makes Yuval very valuable and influential in our journey towards lean.”
Yuval is the best Lean/Agile partner I have ever worked with. Over the 2+ years of our working relationship, he has consistently brought a pragmatic and refreshingly direct approach to problem-solving, coaching, and training. He leans in, and rather than prescribing a canned academic/textbook solution, he works with us to truly understand our core problems and then prescribes a tailored solution that works best for us. We have measured significant improvements in schedule adherence, quality, and customer satisfaction. The results have been dramatic. In addition to working with our core development teams, Yuval has presented Lean/Agile fundamentals to senior executives within my organization and customers who participate in our Customer Advisory Board meetings. He is a no-nonsense straight-talker, and I unconditionally recommend him to anyone serious about agile transformation.
When I asked, “Who should guide us through our Agile journey?” “Yuval” was the reply, followed by the reasons. What I have experienced has been consistent. Yuval is knowledgeable and guides you by asking the right questions at the right time to get you and your team thinking. He has a knack for identifying the missing concepts and language and getting us to talk about those in such a way that we can improve how we work together. Most consultants tell you the answer; Yuval asks the right questions so you find the answer yourself.
