AI Isn’t Failing — Our Operating Systems Are

Executives keep hearing that “95 percent of AI projects fail.”The truth is uglier: it’s not the models that are failing, it’s the management operating systems we’re using to leverage them. Most organizations treat AI like a project — scope, budget, work breakdown structure, milestones. But looking for ways to leverage/operationalize AI is prime example of …

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Product Operating Models Made Practical: Short Audio Lessons

I help product and technology leaders in growth-stage companies to escape wasted effort, feature-factory traps, and coordination chaos—so you can build empowered teams, deliver value faster, and restore trust with the business. This short-episode audio series accompanied by an email mini-course walks you step by step through the product operating model landscape, providing actionable insights …

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What should Reviews look like in a Product Operating Model?

Show me your Review sessions and I’ll easily tell you whether you’re a process theater, feature factory, or product lab. How do you switch from a feature factory to a product lab? From an organization managing projects and plans to one focused on traction towards outcomes and business impact? You change the focus of your …

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From Agile Theater to Product Breakthroughs: What Biotech Can Teach Us About Running Companies Like Products

When I first started working with Dyno Therapeutics—a Boston-based biotech tackling the gene therapy delivery problem—it didn’t look that different from many scaleups I’ve seen. Brilliant scientists, tons of funding, cutting-edge ideas. But also the antipatterns that creep in with scale – silos, dependencies, and a growing sense of “process theater”. The turning point came …

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Why Do So Many Business Transformations Flop?

Find the Scaling w/ Agility Podcast on your favorite Podcast Player: 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 …

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Forever Flywheels?

Flywheels are all the rage these days. I’m a fan as well. “No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. Rather, the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel…turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough.” (Jim Collins, Good to Great) A key attribute …

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Uncomfortable Truths About The Agile Industry’s Focus on Vanity vs Outcomes

In this special crossover episode of Mastering Agility and Scaling with 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. …

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Clemens Adolphs on the Role of Agility in Getting AI Investments Right

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 …

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