It's all in the Name
The names your teams use for Epics, Features, and Stories reveal whether you're in solution mode or outcome mode. Renaming is more than semantics.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Product Ownership: The Product Leader's Bind
When product managers aren't excited to take on product ownership, that's a sniff test for team topology — and a signal to reshape component-oriented teams.
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"Transformed". Yet still the same. An Agile Story
They formed agile teams. They track stories in JIRA. They do three questions daily. And nothing meaningful changed. Agile theater, not product work.
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Breaking the SAFe: Reclaiming Professional Scrum
Season 1 of Breaking the SAFe: where SAFe helps, where it goes sideways, and how to course-correct before the framework becomes theater.
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Spectrum Healthcare: Organizing Around Patients
Spectrum Healthcare needed IT, clinical, and operations leaders to move cross-cutting work faster. Yuval helped launch a cross-functional SAFe-based cadence.
Read more →Searching for Products in Healthcare Providers
Product thinking in healthcare provider organizations: finding the products, naming the customers, and adapting agile to a patient-safety world.
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