Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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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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 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 →Applying product thinking in healthcare provider organizations: finding the products, defining the customers, and adapting agile principles to a highly regulated, patient-safety environment.
Read more →You don't need to be a specialist in every framework when you understand the underlying patterns. How fractal thinking lets you zoom in and out across Kanban, OKRs, SAFe, and Portfolio Agility with the same mental model.
Read more →A fictional case study showing how a cross-functional team applied agility practices to tackle a Gordian knot organizational challenge — from identifying leading indicators to iterating on solutions.
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