Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
‘When scaleup leaders say OKRs are broken but can’’t find anything better, the real problem is usually misapplication. How fixing OKRs back to first principles enables the aligned autonomy founder mode can’’t scale without.’
Read more →Founder mode is valuable — but micromanagement doesn't scale. How to preserve the systems thinking and direct engagement of founder mode while enabling an organization that can run without you in every detail.
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NEC was dealing with project chaos, weak product focus, and low predictability in a high-stakes engineering environment. Yuval helped combine Scrum, Kanban, and leadership-level transparency to create steadier flow and a stronger foundation for scale.
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Lean Portfolio Management and OKRs together: how strategic objectives connect to portfolio investment decisions, and what makes OKRs useful at the portfolio level.
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Interview on the Private Equity Funcast: explaining the agile/agility ecosystem, how PE-backed companies benefit from organizational agility, and what transformation really means.
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The next frontier for agility is applying it to the company itself — not just delivery teams. A look at the scaling challenges (lost innovation, slow time-to-market, leadership bottlenecks) that call for treating the company as a product.
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