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Scaling w/ Agility Podcast

With Yuval Yeret

No BS, nuanced insights to help you thrive at scale using product and agility concepts. Scaling coach Yuval Yeret hosts a show for business leaders applying lean product and agility thinking and systems to scale their organization without compromising on speed, impact, and joy.

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10:00

Why Do So Many Business Transformations Flop?

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/07/30

In this solo episode of Scaling With Agility, Yuval Yeret pulls back the curtain on why so many agile, digital, and business transformations, more generally, fail. Instead of doubling down on top-down mandates and theater, Yuval explores how to foster meaningful change by treating transformation as an internal market. From empowering teams to structuring change as experiments, this episode offers a different take on achieving real organizational agility for leaders tired of check-the-box change and

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62:43

Mastering Courage and Conviction: Small Acts, Big...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/07/22

Episode OverviewIn this roundtable edition of Mastering Agility/Scaling with Agility Gang, hosts Yuval Yeret, Rich Visotcky, and Jim Sammons unpack the role of courage and conviction in agile leadership. They share real-world stories—from reorganising an Israeli cyber-security scale-up to confronting “invisible electric fences” in large enterprises—and demonstrate how small, repeatable acts of bravery compound into systemic change. Practical frameworks, such as the Hypothesis Prioritisation

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38:05

Uncomfortable Truths About The Agile Industry's Focus...

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2025/07/17

Episode OverviewIn this special crossover episode of Mastering Agility and Scaling w/ Agility, Yuval Yeret joins Jim Sammons and Rick Visotcky to confront the uncomfortable truths about the agile industry. Together, they explore why so much agile work has drifted into activity for activity’s sake and how coaches, trainers, and leaders can realign their work to drive meaningful outcomes. The conversation strikes a balance between candor and pragmatism, reflecting on the courage required to challenge

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39:58

Clemens Adolphs on the Role of Agility in Getting AI...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/07/14

In this episode of the Scaling With Agility podcast, host Yuval Yeret welcomes Clemens Adolphs, co-founder of AIce Labs, a company specializing in helping organizations successfully implement AI initiatives. Their conversation dives into the intersection of AI and agility, exploring how to avoid the all-too-common proof-of-concept trap and instead focus on delivering genuine outcomes. From internal market validation to adapting agile methods to the unique context of AI projects, this discussion is

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56:12

How to Drive Towards Business Agility Without Falling...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/07/08

Business Agility Beyond the Theater with Jesper Boeg🎯 Episode OverviewYuval Yeret sits down with Jesper Boeg, an experienced transformation leader. Jesper has spent nearly two decades guiding organizations from team-level agile adoption to enterprise-wide agility. Together, they explore what real business agility looks like—beyond frameworks, dogma, and agile theater. The discussion dives into the evolving role of CXOs in driving adaptability, the pitfalls of applying agile practices

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62:48

Understanding the Agile/Agility Ecosystem

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/06/30

Yuval is a guest on this episode of the Private Equity Funcast focused on Agility in Private Equity: Beyond Agile TheaterSome topics Jim and Yuval cover –- The importance of principle-driven agility over rigid adherence to frameworks.- Leveraging agility in various industries, organizational functions, and broader business operations- “Agile Theater,” where companies follow agile rules without understanding the process.- OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) as strategic guides rather than rigid

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10:17

Descaling for Agility

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/06/26

Descaling for Agility: Empowering Product Teams and Reducing DependenciesIn this episode of Scaling with Agility, Yuval discusses the challenges organizations face with cross-product work and dependencies, advocating for a strategy of descaling rather than investing in more program management. He explores the concept of empowered product teams, the importance of minimal dependencies, and offers practical steps for organizations to identify constraints and improve their architecture to enable

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10:49

The Future of Agile Roles: From Discrete Roles to...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/06/24

The Future of Agile Roles: From Discrete Roles to Integrated AccountabilitiesThis episode explores the evolving landscape of Agile roles, particularly focusing on the future of Scrum Masters and Agile coaches. It critically examines whether Agile has reached a phase of disillusionment and how leaders can foster a principle-based approach to agility. 00:00 Introduction: Is Agile Dead?00:40 The Future of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches00:59 Scrum Guide Companion for Leaders01:15 VP Engineering as the

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28:27

Episode: Michael Gerharz on Breaking Out of Agile...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/06/03

Ever feel like you’re the “agile person” in the room—brought in to run ceremonies, fix Jira boards, or play Scrum cop, but never actually invited to shape real strategy? You’re not alone. In this episode, Yuval sits down with Michael Gerharz—a computer scientist turned communication coach—to dig into why so many agilists get trapped in process theater, why it’s so tough to voice uncomfortable truths, and how to actually show up as a strategic partner instead of a tactical commodity.About the Guest

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11:33

How To Evade Coordination Tax By Organizing Around...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/05/28

Picture this: you've a breakthrough strategic initiative tied to one of your company-level goals that impacts 10 teams across two product groups, as well as your GTM organization.These are all busy, overloaded teams. Those same 10 teams are also juggling five other initiatives. And the business-as-usual whirlwind.You pull this work into the backlogs/roadmaps for all of these teams. fractional slices of people across the teams will work on this. Which means it will take a while. Leaders involved with

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12:21

Breaking Process Theater Using Outcome Orientation

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2025/05/26

Picture this: You’ve invested in a framework, maybe rolled out Agile, SAFe or OKRs , and your teams are “following the process”. But despite all the activity, the promised business impact just isn’t showing up. Sound familiar? If so, you might be caught in Process Theater - a situation where everyone’s performing the rituals, but the outcomes you care about never materialize.Let’s explore why this happens, how to spot it, and—most importantly—how to use outcome mapping to move from process

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54:33

Q & A on Product Portfolio Management Part 2:...

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2025/05/21

Navigating Agile Portfolios: Funding Products, Making Trade-offs, and Aligning TeamsThis is part two of my conversation with Dave West and Darryl Fernandez from the Scrum.org Community Podcast.If part one was about seeing the portfolio mess, this one’s about wrestling with it: funding models that don’t quite fit, PMOs caught between old habits and new expectations, and the perennial challenge of making real trade-offs instead of just handing out more goals like party favors. We dig into why “fund

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43:31

Product Portfolio Management Q&A - Part 1

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/05/21

For this episode, I’m sharing a conversation originally recorded for the Scrum.org Community Podcast. Dave West, Darryl Fernandez, and I discuss the messy realities of product portfolio management. We discuss how most organizations are still managing way too much WIP, why “empowered teams” is more than a buzzword, and what it looks like to bring empiricism and evidence-based management to the portfolio level.Think of this as a trail map, not a recipe. We riff on why portfolio agility is turtles all

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60:51

The Status of Agile as a Platform and Navigating...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/05/20

What's the future of Agile? Agility? Agile as a career choice?I recently joined Jonathan Stark on his podcast Ditching Hourly to discuss the current state of Agile as a platform, how it has evolved over the years, and what practitioners should consider as the platform matures.Jonathan primarily focuses on advice for freelancers/consultants on ditching hourly billing through positioning, productized services, and pricing advice. If, like me, you're a freelancer/solopreneur agile practitioner (or are

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6:02

When and Why Do We Need a Product Operating Model?

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/04/02

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. But as success scales, things get messy. Dependencies pile up, alignment fades, and suddenly, you’re running a feature factory instead of an empowered product organization.Why Do Product Organizations Stall?Here’s the typical lifecycle:* Early Days: One team, minimal dependencies, clear goals. It’s all about finding

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5:56

Expensive Problems >> Principles >> Practices

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2024/12/04

End-to-end flow of valueContinuous ImprovementAutonomy and EmpowermentOrganizing Around ValueSustainable PaceAlignment around Outcome-oriented GoalsEnergized PeopleLeaders who ServeSpeed and EmpiricismAll worthy Agility Principles (at least I think so…) But why should anyone care? I mean, it’s much healthier to focus on principles than practices as a goal. But even these principles are a form of HOW. They don’t answer the WHY. Ask “So what happens if we DON’T follow this principle?” a couple of

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17:01

Breaking the SAFe

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2024/10/16

Breaking Down SAFe: Strengths, Weaknesses, and ControversiesIn this episode of Scaling with Agility, Notebook LM hosts provide an audio overview to Yuval Yeret and Ryan Ripley's Breaking the SAFe series. They dive into the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), exploring its strengths, weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding its implementation. They dissect various components of SAFe, such as PI planning and the roles of Scrum Masters and Product Owners, and debate whether SAFe is genuinely agile or

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6:54

“OKRs S&%k, but we don’t know anything better”

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2024/09/11

Episode OverviewIn this episode, we dive into a brutally honest and all-too-common sentiment from the scaleup world: “OKRs suck, but we don’t know anything better.” This quote from a Chief of Staff at a cybersecurity scaleup sets the tone for a candid discussion about the challenges-and surprising potential-of OKRs when scaling fast-growing companies.Yuval shares real-world insights from working with scaleups, including a fascinating case study from a BioTech company struggling to make OKRs work

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34:40

Fix Your OKRs – Back to First Principles

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2022/12/07

Fixing OKRs with First Principles: Aligning Objectives for SuccessIn this episode of Scaling With Agility, Yuval explores how to effectively utilize OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) by applying first principles. He discusses the common pitfalls of OKRs becoming mere 'theater' in organizations and provides strategies to avoid these traps. Yuval emphasizes the importance of focusing on a small set of strategic objectives, distinguishing between working in the business and on the business, and

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