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 us launch a scaled agile implementation in our group of 100 at Akamai. He ran custom in-house Leading SAFe training for us and guided a value stream identification and realization strategic workshop. Several of us also attended Yuval’s Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master courses to improve our Agile basics. Yuval was a clear and effective instructor. He covered a lot of substantive material quickly in an interactive way that helped it make sense and stick. His tech leadership background was essential in helping us understand how to apply Agile and SAFe within our specific business and technical contexts. Always encouraging us to return to the Agile principles and think flexibly, he prepared us to embark on a successful Agile journey that involved constant inspection, reflection, and adjustment. Four years later, our implementation is tuned, allowing our teams to achieve much more than was possible before, with a higher level of transparency and collaboration with organizational and portfolio management. I highly recommend Yuval for Agile or scaled Agile teaching, coaching, or assistance anywhere on your Agile journey!
