Cindy VanEpps

Cindy VanEpps

Business Agility Consultant and SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT)

Cindy VanEpps’s first job out of college was crafting Space Shuttle Flight Design Software at Johnson Space Center. Over the subsequent years she has been a software developer, technical lead, development manager, consultant, and solution developer.

She has worked with numerous system engineering companies and with each she has proven success at helping transform traditional waterfall and highly regulated environments to agile and scaled agile practices.

In Cindy’s published thought leadership, teaching and consulting she has proven a wealth of knowledge and creativity but more importantly she brings pragmatism to the application of Agile practices.  She “practices what she preaches” on the importance of focus on principles and evolving the specific practices based on both relentless improvement and application of the principles in the way that provides most economic benefit.

As a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) her pragmatic approach and entertaining style make her a fan favorite.

A few highlights:

• Led and coached agile architecture practices for an IT transformation from data centers to cloud infrastructure using SAFe.

• Coordinated and coached adoption of MBSE with SAFe in 3000+ person IT organization for large Military Defense contractor.

• Transformed a Military Defense System Team from traditional V-model to Agile and Scaled Agile with immediate customer delight at seeing demonstrable results.

• Transformed a medical device system that included hardware, firmware, electronics and software to SAFe

• Coached an IT organization in one of world’s top 10 oil and gas companies.  Helped advance their agile and SAFe practices, quantification of business value, architecture practices, coordination with other ARTs, and focus on Systems Thinking.