Yeret Agility – Your Guide Away From Agile Theater to Impactful Agility

What if there was a better way to achieve Agility?

Avoid the theater and focus on pragmatic principle-based interventions that make an impact.

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Yuval Yeret

Welcome to Yeret Agility

I’m Yuval Yeret. As a Product/Scaling/Agility strategic advisor, I help leaders pursue real and pragmatic agility at scale. Leaders reach out to me when looking for ways to improve product development or when they want to apply agile ideas to overall operational excellence and business scaling/improvement.

I thrive in engagements that involve taking a lean, pragmatic path focused on outcomes rather than dogma.

I’m based in Boston, my clients are all over.

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Why work with me

1. Deep expertise in a variety of lean/agile approaches
2. Pragmatic flexible application to different contexts with a strategic view towards intent rather than a mechanic implementation
3. Ability to create powerful mashups and new practices built on solid principles

After some reflection, I realized that I’m in my “zone” when I’m partnering with leaders who are looking for ways to leverage agile/agility in the broader sense to deal with some of the hard, wicked challenges of either product development or company growth/transformation.

We tackle these challenges like the best teams develop products. We leverage fast learning cycles when defining and deploying change in the organization’s operations. I help leaders create empowered teams that operate with strategic clarity. We overcome silos using cross-functional networks of teams. You might say it’s all about trying to operate like a startup, even after you’re a scaleup or an enterprise. Or it’s like applying modern product development approaches to build/develop the company/organization.

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StrategicScaling by DescalingDiverse Expertise in ScalingThought Leadership

I focus on achieving strategic outcomes, not implementing buzzwords.

Our engagement will start with a Strategy Workshop exploring your WHY, helping you figure out the WHAT and HOW that makes sense in your context with an eye towards a minimum effective dose / viable change that will serve as the basis for inspection and adaptation cycles.

I find that the key to effectively scaling an organization is to create a team architecture/topology that minimizes the need for coordination.

I help leaders organize their teams around value streams, products, and business processes in a way that creates empowered autonomous teams with clear sight to making an impact on the business.

Only then do we apply the scaling practices that make sense in the context.

I’m the only individual worldwide with the highest accreditation levels in both the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe Fellow/SPCT) and Scrum (Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer – PST)

I’m a contributor to the growth and maturation of Kanban, SAFe, Agile Marketing, Business Agility, and the creation of Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum with Kanban course and guide

My thought leadership in the Scaled Agile Framework world was acknowledged when Scaled Agile designated me as a SAFe Fellow.

KIND WORDS FROM CLIENTS

Yuval helped me bring the science and mindset of agile into the Biotech world. He advised me and my team on how to operationalize the agile best practices and apply them pragmatically and practically to our unique context – with a focus on transparency, empiricism, shared understanding, and empowerment. Yuval brings a wealth of experience across many industries and is a real partner in our journey.

Vincenza Nigro – Global Franchise Lead – Hansa Biopharma

By having Yuval on board, we found not just an experienced professional but also a partner in our lean journey with a passion and commitment to coach and guide us until we achieve our goals. Yuval’s vast knowledge and experience along with keen analytical skills enable him to fit the lean principles into our organization’s DNA and to help us overcome difficulties and constraints without risking our short-term business targets. Yuval has many capabilities which make him highly versatile. He can swiftly move from strategy/blueprints to training a class, implementing methods/processes all the way to helping us through some tough issues through hands-on coaching. This makes Yuval very valuable and influential in our journey towards lean.”

Adam Magen – VP Operational Excellence – Siemens Digital Industries

Yuval is the best Lean/Agile partner I have ever worked with. Over the 2+ years of our working relationship, he has consistently brought a pragmatic and refreshingly direct approach to problem-solving, coaching, and training. He leans in, and rather than prescribing a canned academic/textbook solution, he works with us to truly understand our core problems and then prescribes a tailored solution that works best for us. We have measured significant improvements in schedule adherence, quality, and customer satisfaction. The results have been dramatic. In addition to working with our core development teams, Yuval has presented Lean/Agile fundamentals to senior executives within my organization and customers who participate in our Customer Advisory Board meetings. He is a no-nonsense straight-talker, and I unconditionally recommend him to anyone serious about agile transformation.

Steve Lizotte – VP Engineering – NEC Americas

When I asked, “Who should guide us through our Agile journey?” “Yuval” was the reply, followed by the reasons. What I have experienced has been consistent. Yuval is knowledgeable and guides you by asking the right questions at the right time to get you and your team thinking. He has a knack for identifying the missing concepts and language and getting us to talk about those in such a way that we can improve how we work together. Most consultants tell you the answer; Yuval asks the right questions so you find the answer yourself.

Tyson Bertmaring – Head of Stewardship – Dyno Therapeutics

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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DIVERSE Experience

I work with diverse companies ranging from startups, incubators, accelerators, and scale-ups to some of the world’s most prominent technology and consumer brands. I leverage this diverse experience to help my clients find the right path for their agility journey. Here are some of my recent projects:

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

The journey for NEC with Scrum, Kanban, and agility illustrates the effectiveness of these practices in transforming complex, real-world environments. By starting small, defining their products, having greater focus by having teams understand what their products were, and engaging leadership in transparent decision-making, NEC addressed immediate operational challenges and laid a strong foundation for sustained …

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Molecule to Medicine(M2M) Bio

Applied agile / Scrum / Kanban within a Biotech ecosystem involving a platform and multiple research and clinical applications. “agile is now a normal part of how we operate.” Check out this Scrum.org podcast episode on how I helped M:M Bio use Scrum, Kanban and Agile Practices for R&D Projects in the Oncology & Immuno-oncology …

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Hansa BioPharma

Coaching the leadership team of a “commercial franchise” on leveraging agile techniques and principles to improve alignment, empowerment, and risk management when introducing a new revolutionary drug to market.

Dyno Therapeutics

I helped the Dyno team evolve their approach to agility beyond mechanical agile towards principled agility applied both to the Tech organization (including Machine-learning, BigData) as well as the Biology teams (creating virus/capsids) , G&A, and the executive team. This included Professional Scrum training, workshops to agree on the next iteration of agility at Dyno …

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Gillette – Designing and Productizing a New Razor with Scrum

Summary I partnered with Gillette’s R&D and Commercial leadership to leverage Scrum for designing the Gillette Exfoliating Razor. This initiative included several multi-disciplinary teams involving technical, research, and commercial teams collaborating on one scaled Scrum borrowing patterns from the Nexus framework. Using Scrum to quickly learn and validate on the key leap of faith assumptions …

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Aras

Aras’ collaboration with Yuval Yeret propelled them towards agile excellence, yielding rapid innovation, enhanced collaboration, and market responsiveness. The transformation, orchestrated by Yeret, revolutionized Aras’ product development, quality, and operational efficiency.

Computer Associates – Marketing Agility at Scale

Standing up Agility at Scale for a marketing organization involving multiple marketing and sales functions organized in multi-disciplinary teams empowered to own their funnel and run fast iterative cycles to deliver and optimize marketing/sales plays. The teams collaborated as an “Agile Marketing Train” to improve alignment and synergy by marketing and selling the product portfolio …

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Idemia – Using Agile to Improve Delivery

Idemia builds the systems you experience when you get your Driver’s license and go through the TSA Precheck lines. I helped Idemia leverage agile to help it deliver customer programs and build its future products. This included standing up team-level agility in several groups, standing up a lean agile center-of-excellence, organizing stable SAFe ARTs organized …

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Intel

CyberArk – Achieving Real Agility at a Scaleup Building Hard-core CyberSecurity Products

Trained and advised leaders and teams in the product and engineering organization at CyberArk on their scaling journey – leveraging product-stream Kanban systems to understand and accelerate flow across teams and then supporting/coaching the viral growth of Kanban systems by individual teams. Coached the organization’s leaders in the process of reorganizing around value – moving …

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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

Advisory / Coaching Services

Training

I offer high impact training workshops with follow-up implementation/application sessions.

Training workshops can be off-the-shelf classes such as SAFe, Professional Scrum, my portfolio of training offerings, and custom-made workshops to fit specific needs.

High Impact Private Training Services

Fractional Leader

Need someone to lead your company’s product/scaling/agility journey? I can take on a fractional role on your leadership team and drive the journey.

Fractional Agility Leadership

Work With Yuval

I’m based in the Boston area. My clients are all over the world.

These days I’m focusing on 1:1 leadership agility strategy coaching/mentoring, light-touch high impact strategic workshops, and a small set of fractional engagements as an agility champion / enterprise coach. If any of that sounds useful – let’s have a chat.

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yuval@yeretagility.com (617) 356-7093‬

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