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Scaling AI: From Activity to Impact
For technology, product, and business leaders asking a hard question: how do we turn all this AI activity theater into real business impact?
Yuval and his guests explore what needs to change in how organizations choose, fund, learn, and work with AI, including how native AI capabilities can help scale AI itself.
Building on its roots in scaling with agility, the podcast applies adaptive, product-oriented thinking to the biggest operating-model challenge facing organizations today.
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Developers of the System, Not the Code: Inside Next Insurance's Agentic DLC w/ Shay Mandel
with Shay Mandel
"We are now developers, not of the code. We are developers of the system." Most AI coding rollouts end up with faster typing and the same delivery system. Shay Mandel's team at Ergo-Next Insurance went after the sys…
Beyond Token Caps w/ Tomer Elias: How Enterprises Actually Measure AI Impact
with Tomer Elias: How Enterprises Actually Measure AI Impact
Most enterprise AI conversations get stuck on the wrong number: how many tokens an employee should be allowed to burn. Tomer Elias argues the cap is the least interesting question in the room. The hard part is attributio…
Why the Pivot? Tracing the Line from Scaling Agility to AI Impact
In this special episode, host Yuval Yeret flips the script with guest Philip Morgan, an expert on positioning and point of view. They discuss the recent rebranding of the podcast and dive deep into the striking parallels…
Claude's /goal Feature Just Exposed A Real Challenge With AI Agents
Claude and Codex have a relatively new feature — `/goal` — that lets you set a completion condition and keep the AI running autonomously until it's met. This capability exposes a real challenge with agentic AI and e…
You can 10x engineering and still not 10x the business
AI coding assistants are genuinely good now — coding, debugging, tests, docs. But faster engineering output doesn't automatically become faster business impact. AI has quietly moved the bottleneck: from building wor…
Avoiding AI Theater: Strategies for Real Impact
Yuval Yeret explores the evolution of AI adoption in organizations, from activity and output to impactful results. He discusses common pitfalls of AI theater, the importance of focusing on real impact, and strategies to…
Beyond AI Hype: Building an AI-Powered Organization w/ Kumar Venugopal, CTO of Zoetis
with Kumar Venugopal, CTO of Zoetis
The new season of the podcast explores a question that's top of mind for many technology, product, and business leaders these days - How do you scale AI from Activity to Impact? What should your "ways of working" lo…
When One Product Needs More Than One Leader: Getting Multi-Team Product Ownership Right
The question isn't how many product owners you need. It's how many genuine product problems your product actually has. In the final episode of this three-part series, Yuval Yeret works through the most complex…
Who Actually Owns Your Product? Why the PM/PO Split Often Creates More Confusion Than It Solves
Two titles, one product, and a gap in accountability that's quietly costing you more than you think. In this solo episode, Yuval Yeret tackles one of the most common structural problems in product organizations: the…
All Episode Archives
- Why Your Product Owners/Managers Can't Say No 00:07:08
- In the Spotlight - Building and Operating Your Revenue Machine 00:29:17
- Tackling the Bureaucracy That Stalls Scale-up Growth using Stewardship and Agility w/ Michelle Holiday and Tyson Bertmaring 00:53:42
- Being Agile about Scaling Agile at Aras Software w/ Andrey Knourenko 00:45:11
- Value w/o Risk? Wouldn't that be nice... 00:11:39
- How to Upgrade Your Scaling SMBs Operating System Without Losing Agility 00:42:08
- How to Upgrade Your Organization's Operating System for the Age of AI 00:49:38
- What's Next On Navigating the Product Operating Model Landscape? Product Transformation Journey? 00:01:31
- Bringing The Elements of a Product Operating Model Together – From Inspiration to Transformation 00:03:17
- How to Apply Product Thinking to Strategic Bets and Portfolio-Level Work 00:02:54
- How to Scale Your Product/Tech Organization Without Sacrificing Your Agility 00:04:34
- Empowered Product Teams – The Key to Speed, Outcomes and Impact 00:04:51
- Why are we stuck in the Feature Factory? Agile Theater vs. True Agility 00:01:58
- Why would you need a Product Operating Model? 00:03:13
- Welcome to the Navigating the Product Operating Model Landscape Audio Series 00:01:46
- From Feature Factory to Product Lab: Turning Reviews into Strategic Outcome-Driven Conversations 00:03:05
- Breaking Down SAFe: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Controversies 00:17:01
- Don't sleep on Portfolio-level Agility 00:08:43
- Why Do So Many Business Transformations Flop? 00:10:00
- Mastering Courage and Conviction: Small Acts, Big Impact in Agile Leadership 01:02:42
- Uncomfortable Truths About The Agile Industry's Focus on Vanity vs Outcomes 00:38:04
- Clemens Adolphs on the Role of Agility in Getting AI Investments Right 00:39:57
- How to Drive Towards Business Agility Without Falling Into Transformation Theater - Fireside Chat with Jesper Boeg 00:56:12
- Understanding the Agile/Agility Ecosystem 01:02:47
- Accelerate your Delivery by Reducing Dependencies - Descaling for Agility 00:10:17
- The Future of Agile Roles: From Discrete Roles to Integrated Accountabilities 00:10:48
- From Agile Theater To Real Value with Michael Gerharz 00:28:26
- How To Evade Coordination Tax By Organizing Around Outcomes 00:11:33
- How to break through the process theater (Using outcome orientation) 00:12:13
- Q & A on Product Portfolio Management Part 2: Evolving Portfolio Management for Product Success 00:54:33
- Product Portfolio Management Q&A - Part 1 00:43:30
- Episode 1 - The Status of Agile as a Platform and Navigating Agile Career Pivots 01:00:50
- The Scaling Paradox: Why Your Success is Now Killing Your Speed (aka why the heck would you need to shift from managing projects to products? ) 00:06:02
- Expensive Problems >> Principles >> Practices 00:05:56
- Breaking the SAFe 00:17:01
- “OKRs S&%k, but we don’t know anything better” 00:06:53
- Fix Your OKRs – Back to First Principles 00:34:39
Additional Listening
Guest Appearances
Episodes where Yuval appears as a guest on other podcasts — on SAFe, OKRs, lean portfolio management, AI, and agile careers.
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