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Guest Appearances & Interviews

Yuval Yeret sits down with leaders and practitioners across the product, agile, and AI ecosystem to explore flow, empiricism, pragmatic scaling, and enterprise operating models.

Ditching Hourly 00:58:30

The Status of Agile as a Platform and Navigating Career Pivots

Hosted by Jonathan Stark • Apr 15, 2025

Yuval Yeret joins Jonathan Stark on Ditching Hourly to discuss the life cycle of Agile as a platform, crossing the chasm into late-majority adoption, why dedicated agile roles are burning out, and how practitioners can pivot by focusing on expensive business problems and outcomes.

Agile as a Platform Career Pivots Why Conversation Outcome Orientation
Business Agility Now 00:46:52

What is the Difference Between Scaled Agile/SAFe and a Product Operating Model?

Hosted by Adam Mattis • Mar 21, 2025

Yuval Yeret joins Adam Mattis on Business Agility Now (powered by Scaled Agile) to explore empowered product teams, outcome-oriented PI Planning, the difference between enterprise agility and a product operating model, and why incentives matter most.

SAFe and Scrum Product Operating Model Portfolio Flow Incentive Structures
Business Agility Now 00:39:12

Exploring All Things Flow with Yuval Yeret

Hosted by Adam Mattis • Aug 20, 2024

Adam Mattis and Yuval Yeret explore flow principles across the enterprise: Little's Law, queue management, batch size reduction, and practical ways to accelerate value delivery without overburdening teams.

Flow Principles Queue Theory Batch Size Reduction Team Capacity
Product Fields 00:52:14

Lean Portfolio Management and OKRs

Hosted by Jim & Sander • Mar 12, 2024

In episode #103 of Product Fields, Yuval Yeret breaks down Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), managing investments as discovery bets rather than rigid roadmaps, and connecting strategic OKRs to team execution without falling into OKR theater.

Lean Portfolio Management Strategic OKRs Bet-Based Governance Empiricism
Scrum.org Community Podcast 00:23:09

Professional Scrum Trainer Spotlight: Flow, Empiricism, and SAFe

Hosted by Dave West • Jan 15, 2024

Scrum.org CEO Dave West sits down with Professional Scrum Trainer and SAFe Fellow Yuval Yeret to discuss Yuval's journey from DevSecOps in the Israeli Air Force to introducing Flow and Kanban into Scrum, pragmatic scaling with SAFe, and bringing empiricism to OKRs and EOS.

Empiricism and Flow Scrum with Kanban SAFe and Pragmatic Scaling OKRs and Operating Systems
Scrum.org Community Podcast 00:35:10

How M:M Bio Used Scrum, Kanban and Agile Practices for R&D Projects in Oncology

Hosted by Dave West & Kirsty McCart • Nov 20, 2023

Host Dave West and guest Kirsty McCart join Yuval Yeret to discuss applying agile practices, Scrum, and Kanban to complex R&D in oncology and immuno-oncology biotech research, navigating deep regulatory hurdles with empiricism.

Biotech Agility Scrum with Kanban Oncology R&D Scientific Workflows
Scrum.org Community Podcast 00:36:50

From Fingerprints to Frameworks: NEC's Agile Journey with Scrum and Kanban

Hosted by Dave West & Steve Lizotte • Aug 14, 2023

Steve Lizotte (VP of Engineering at NEC) and Yuval Yeret join Dave West to tell the story of NEC's agile journey with biometric identification systems, transforming hardware-dependent teams using Professional Scrum with Kanban.

Enterprise Case Study Biometrics and Hardware Scrum with Kanban Engineering Culture
Agile for Humans 00:31:05

Breaking the SAFe: Deconstructing PI Planning

Hosted by Ryan Ripley & Todd Miller • May 2, 2023

Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller, and Yuval Yeret dissect Program Increment (PI) Planning: what makes it powerful for multi-team alignment, how teams turn it into waterfall Gantt charts, and how to preserve agility during big room planning.

PI Planning Program Increment Big Room Planning Alignment vs Control

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Yuval regularly joins conversations to unpack the realities of modern operating models, empiricism, and evidence-based management.