Fresh Insights
- Tackling Strategy Theater – Fractals To The Rescue (Yet Again)Are your strategic themes gathering dust like unused New Year’s resolutions? If you’re investing significant energy evaluating initiatives but your enterprise themes seem vague, unconnected, merely …
- What To Do When Adoption of an Internal Tool/Process StallsYou’ve paid for that product license. JIRA Align. Copilot. ChatGPT. Maestro. Pendo. Gong. ServiceNow. Snowflake. Cascade. Monday. Clickup. (Engineering|Product|Rev|Whatever) Ops. IT. Take your pick. OKRs. Scrum. …
- The Status of Agile as a Platform and Navigating Agile Career Pivots
What’s the future of Agile? Agility? Agile as a career choice? Yesterday, I joined Jonathan Stark on his podcast Ditching Hourly to discuss the current state … - From Hype/FOMO/Theater to Fit-for-Purpose: How To Use a Product Operating Model To Develop Your Product Operating ModelAlice wants her product organization to adopt a product operating model because she believes it’s the future of working. She’s been an early adopter of agile …
- The Value Of The Feature FactoryBack in 2006, calling my product delivery organization a factory would have been a compliment. We were struggling to deliver predictably. Quality was such a big …
- Product-Led AI: How to Turn LLM Geekery Into Customer OutcomesEngineers excited about LLMs, Agentic AI, RAGs, spending time going to the vendors, playing around like kids with new toys. Without a real problem in mind. …
- SAFe-ly Scaling an Agile Product Operating ModelHow can an Agile Product Operating Model (APOM) enhance how organizations use SAFe? I had several conversations with product leaders this week where this question came …
- Sniffing your Product Orientation Maturity using Team NamesPersistence Pioneers UI Architects Embedding Engineers Refactor Rebels Sprint Sprinters Integration Innovators Audio Overview Creators Mind Map Builders YouTube Insights Team Scalability Savants Podcast Summarization Squad …
- When and Why Do We Need a Product Operating Model?Ever feel like your product organization is stuck in the mud? You’re not alone. Many teams start strong, laser-focused on delivering value and achieving product-market fit. …
- What Do Trusted Peer Groups Have to Do with Scaling Agility? (Podcast)
Leading an agility journey can often feel lonely. These days, especially, there’s plenty of complexity, and rapid change—what we’ve come to know as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, … - How To Develop Your Product Operating Model/Playbook
This article is inspired by recent conversations I had with Product Leaders about product operating models, how to bring them to life using Product Playbooks, and … - Accelerating Without Losing Grip: The Power of Organizational TractionA CEO asked me last week why I’m using the term Organizational Traction. I got the inspiration from Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Gino Wickman’s book …
- What’s the difference between Product-Led Growth, Product-Led Org, And Product Operating Model?I see some practitioners and leaders using these terms interchangeably. I thought I’d take the time to clarify the overlaps and differences, first of all for …
- How To Start A Conversation About Agility“Can we just start with day 2? (Fast forward the WHY/WHAT)” If only I had a dollar for every time I heard this statement in an …
- What is the difference between Scaled Agile/SAFe and a Product Operating Model? (Interview on the Business Agility Now Podcast)I recently joined Adam Mattis on the “Business Agility Now” podcast for a conversation about scaling agile and product operating models. It’s always a pleasure to …
- Mastering Organizational Traction Or Portfolio Agility?Should you focus on mastering organizational traction or on establishing portfolio agility? Let me tell you a secret: In my experience, mastering organization traction involves realizing …
- When is Agile worth the Overhead? “Agile is so great we need to use it for EVERYTHING” “Agile is so much overhead, we stopped using it for ANYTHING” Are you also trying …
- Scaling Companies Up Requires Some of The Startup Phase ScrappinessFounders know that scaling their company to Unicorn status requires extending beyond a singular focus. Launching a product extension. Complementing your established Go-to-market motion. Entering new …
- How To Choose An Owner For a Cross-Organization InitiativeReader Kevin had this question about Cross-Product Initiative Ownership:“How should we choose an Initiative (or Epic) Owner when multiple parts of the organization will be responsible for …
- What Do You Do When OKRs Become Too Much Administrative Work?Does it ever feel like OKRs are too much overhead? Does it make sense that OKRs will only work when “We we will have more people …
Introduction to Yuval’s world
Are you trying to make sense of the complex landscape of agile, agility, scaling, product and business operating systems?
Here are some central themes you might want to explore – all revolving around looking at the intent and intersection behind different practices and frameworks in the world of agile, scaling, and product and highlighting first principles and useful patterns in a way that transcends different contexts.