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.

Let's Discuss Your Agility Goals and Challenges – Book a Call to See if We're the Right Fit.

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.

Let's Discuss Your Agility Goals and Challenges – Book a Call to See if We're the Right Fit.

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.
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.”
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.
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.

Helping Leaders improve traction and outcomes in diverse and complex environments

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. Very often, leaders approach me when they want to leverage agility in domains beyond the beaten path and are cautious of both “by the book” dogma as well as losing the intent when customizing/watering down the ideas. Here are some of my recent projects:

Bringing Business, Clinical Operations and IT together to deliver faster better Business Outcomes at Spectrum Healthcare

Overview Spectrum Healthcare, a multispecialty medical practice in Maine, wanted to improve operational efficiency across surgical operations, quality, marketing, clinical operations, physiotherapy champions, compliance, medical staff services, billing, and IT. IT, clinical and operational leaders aimed to enhance collaboration across departments and improve their ability to drive operational changes effectively. When/Why Spectrum was looking at …

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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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Improving BioTech Incubator Collaboration, Traction and Agility

M:M Bio, a collaborative ecosystem of oncology and immuno-oncology biotechs based in Oxford, wanted to revolutionize its approach to drug discovery and R&D. With companies ranging from early-stage discovery to clinical development, the organization needed to improve how teams worked together, manage long lead times, and pivot quickly based on experimental data—all while keeping their …

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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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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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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 help leaders take their organization from agile theater to real agility outcomes at scale, spanning the organization. Much of my work is on the agile frontier – extending agility to the company level, non-software product and business development, and other exciting new applications.

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

How can I help?

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