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PODCAST

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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00:07:19

Who Actually Owns Your Product? Why the PM/PO Split...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2026/03/30

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 split between product manager and product owner that creates ambiguity instead of clarity. Drawing on client patterns across hardware, software, and platform organizations, Yuval unpacks the misunderstanding at the root of this confusion — and makes the case that product ownership is

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00:07:08

Why Your Product Owners/Managers Can't Say No

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2026/03/23

In hardware-software companies, life sciences, and industrial tech, a familiar pattern emerges: a platform team serving multiple internal customers, one product owner caught between competing roadmaps, and no one with the standing to make the tough calls. In this episode, Yuval unpacks why this happens, what it costs, and what a more workable structure actually looks like.What you'll hear:Why platform teams often end up without real product leadership even when someone has the product owner

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00:29:17

In the Spotlight - Building and Operating Your...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2026/03/06

Most sales leaders are stuck running the machine. Few stop to ask whether the machine is even working.In this episode of In the Spotlight, Roi Carmel sits down with Yuval to break apart the two hats every revenue leader wears — operating the team and building it — and why most teams only do one.Yuval has spent over two decades helping organizations build self-improving teams, starting in product and engineering and now working directly with go-to-market leaders. His approach borrows hard-earned

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00:53:42

Tackling the Bureaucracy That Stalls Scale-up Growth...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Why "Rules Written in Blood" Kill Agency—and How Stewardship Restores FlowWhen companies scale, the default move is to add "boxes and rules" to maintain control. But this functional isolation often creates massive friction, turning G&A into a bottleneck instead of an accelerator. In this episode, Tyson Bertmaring and Michelle Holliday join Yuval to explore how shifting from rigid management to "Stewardship" allows your organization to evolve as a high-capacity

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00:45:11

Being Agile about Scaling Agile at Aras Software w/...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/12/16

In this conversation, Yuval and Andrey Knourenko discuss Aras Software's scaling journey. They reflect on the challenges faced during the transition, the impact of COVID-19, and the evolution of planning approaches and team structures. The discussion also touches on the influence of private equity on agile practices and the need for continuous improvement in agile methodologies, particularly in the context of emerging technologies such as AI."You have to be agile about

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00:11:39

Value w/o Risk? Wouldn't that be nice...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/12/10

In this conversation, Yuval explores the intricate relationship between risk and value. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and managing risk to unlock potential value, particularly through de-risking strategies such as agile/iterative discovery-based execution. "Agile is risk-driven development - You're surfing that risk."00:00 The Correlation Between Value and Risk04:12 De-risking Strategies in Product Development10:46 Agile as a Risk-Driven Approach

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42:08

How to Upgrade Your Scaling SMBs Operating System...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/11/03

At some point on the growth journey, most leaders reach a point at which they upgrade their organization’s operating system. (even if they don’t explicitly call it that)Way too often, this upgrade doesn’t result in immediate acceleration and traction. In many cases, it feels like the organization is working FOR the new structures and ways of working, rather than the other way around.The processes often seem too rigid and theatrical, rather than outcome-oriented.In this crossover episode with the

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49:38

How to Upgrade Your Organization's Operating System...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/23

Episode OverviewIn this crossover episode with the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Yuval Yeret joins Scrum.org CEO Dave West to unpack why 95% of AI initiatives fail—not because of the tech, but because of outdated organizational operating systems. Together they explore how they’ve seen product thinking and empirical agility help leaders align strategy, product, and delivery to make AI deliver business impact. Together, they explore how mid-market and scale-up leaders can evolve their “Company

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1:31

What's Next On Navigating the Product Operating Model...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

In this last episode of the initial series, I share where we might go next in future episodes, exploring the product journey on the Scaling w/ Agility podcast. If you have any questions, ideas, or would like to come on the podcast to share your product transformation journey, let me know! Subscribe to the free audio mini course here: https://yuvalyeret.com/from-buzzwords-to-clarity-product-operating-model-audio-mini-course/I’d love to get your feedback and help you navigate this landscape -

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3:17

Bringing The Elements of a Product Operating Model...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Let’s talk about how to integrate the Product Operating Model elements we discussed in previous episodes:* Recap of the “flipped pyramid” concept and its importance in POM* Key aspects of a true product-oriented, agile organization* The importance of treating the organizational setup itself as a product* Preview of future episodesI hope you’re finding this audio series useful. (If you landed here through the podcast you can subscribe to the free audio mini course here:

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2:55

How to Apply Product Thinking to Strategic Bets and...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Did episode 4 get you thinking about how to flip your product topology pyramid and move more work towards empowered product teams and groups? I hope so...The reality is that in a multi-product organization, it’s almost impossible to manage ALL the work in these teams. Some work will still require collaboration across product groups as well as strategic consideration by product and even business leadership. You might be calling it your product portfolio.In this episode, we explore how to apply

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4:34

How to Scale Your Product/Tech Organization Without...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Now that we’ve established our goal - creating empowered product teams- let’s discuss how to scale a product organization using these empowered product teams as a building block and connecting them without sacrificing agility and product orientation.In this episode:* Challenges of maintaining agility as organizations grow* Introduction to the “flipped pyramid” concept* Types of teams needed for effective scaling* Strategies for “descaling” to push work back to empowered teamsAbout the Navigating the

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4:51

Empowered Product Teams – The Key to Speed, Outcomes...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

This episode of the audio series introduces a core pillar of the modern product organization - empowered product teams: * What does a truly empowered product team look like? * Contrast between ideal product professionals and reality in feature factories* Challenges faced by product people in feature factory environments* The struggle to build effective product capabilities in technology organizations* Misalignment between strategic product roles and tactical team needsAbout the Navigating the

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1:58

Why are we stuck in the Feature Factory? Agile...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Ok, so we hopefully established the potential of shifting from a feature factory towards a product-oriented organization. To start that shift, let’s explore why so many organizations are stuck in the feature factory (or even struggle to get to it...)In this episode, I explore one of the main villains in the product and agile landscape - the theater:* Introduction to the concept of “Agile Theater” or “Product Theater”* Exploration of how organizations adopt agile terminology without true

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3:13

Why would you need a Product Operating Model?

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

In this episode, we explore:* Why organizations need a Product Operating Model* Comparison of POM to traditional agile methodologies* Introduction to the concept of “feature factories”* Discussion on the continuum from activity to outputs to outcomes* The key characteristics of a Product Operating ModelReflection question: Can you identify the dynamics of the feature factory in your organization?About the Navigating the Product Operating Model Landscape Audio SeriesWhat You’ll Learn:* Why Agile

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1:46

Welcome to the Navigating the Product Operating Model...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Do you feel inspired by becoming an empowered product organization, but unsure of the concrete steps to take to initiate the transformation?I created the “Navigating the Product Operating Model Landscape” audio series to help product and technology leaders like you gain clarity on the path from a product/agile theater feature factory to becoming an empowered, outcome-oriented, and scalable product organization.In this episode:* Introduction to the podcast series on navigating the Product Operating

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3:10

From Feature Factory to Product Lab: Turning Reviews...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/10/01

“Show me your reviews, and I’ll tell you whether you’re a process theater, a feature factory, or a product lab.”In this solo episode, Yuval Yeret brings together his SAFe and Scrum expertise and his Sense and Respond Learning focus on Outcomes and Impact to explain how he helps product leaders use reviews to drive the shift from output checklists into outcome-focused conversations - the essence of a true product organization. “It’s not about reviewing deliverables. It’s about reviewing

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17:01

Breaking Down SAFe: Strengths, Weaknesses, and...

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/08/13

In this special episode of No BS Scaling w/ Agility, Yuval shares an AI-generated highlight of the Breaking the SAFe video series created with Ryan Ripley. As a SAFe Fellow, SPCT, and Professional Scrum Trainer, Yuval brings a unique inside-out perspective—able to both defend and critique SAFe based on real-world intent and outcomes.This episode explores some of the most hotly debated elements of SAFe: why it’s so popular, where it goes off the rails, and how leadership, structure, and context shape

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8:43

Don't sleep on Portfolio-level Agility

Scaling w/ Agility Podcast ·

2025/08/06

When is the right time to introduce portfolio-level agility? Drawing from more than a decade of experience guiding enterprise transformations, Yuval argues that starting at the portfolio level—early—isn’t just helpful, it’s essential.He walks listeners through a powerful case study involving a 1000-person delivery organization trapped in a waterfall-heavy, high-coordination setup. By introducing lightweight Portfolio Kanban and visual flow management before fixing the teams, the organization was

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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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