It's all in the Name
The names your teams use for Epics, Features, and Stories reveal whether you're in solution mode or outcome mode. Why renaming is more than semantics — it reshapes how your organization thinks about what it builds.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Product Ownership - To Be Or Not To Be - The Product Leader's bind
When product managers aren't excited to take on product ownership, that's a sniff test for team topology. How to help CPOs reshape component-oriented teams into empowered product teams that want to own outcomes.
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"Transformed". Yet still the same. An All Too Familiar Agile Story
They formed agile teams. They track stories in JIRA. They do three questions daily. They've "transformed." And yet nothing meaningful has changed. The all-too-familiar gap between agile theater and real product orientation.
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Breaking the SAFe Season 1
Season 1 of Breaking the SAFe: an honest exploration of where SAFe implementations go wrong and what practitioners can do to course-correct before the transformation stalls.
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Spectrum Healthcare - Organizing around Patient Outcomes To Amplify Business Impact
Spectrum Healthcare needed IT, clinical, and operational leaders to move critical cross-cutting initiatives faster. Yuval helped launch a cross-functional SAFe-based operating cadence that improved collaboration, sped delivery on telemedicine and clinic initiatives, and strengthened business outcomes.
Read more →Searching for Products in the Healthcare Provider World
Applying product thinking in healthcare provider organizations: finding the products, defining the customers, and adapting agile principles to a highly regulated, patient-safety environment.
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