Posts tagged SPCT
Debbie Brey

Debbie Brey retired as a Technical Fellow from Boeing in 2024 after a 38-year career. She introduced and advanced Boeing’s working methods using a combination of Agile, Lean, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Debbie founded the Boeing Enterprise Agile Center of Excellence, where she focused on growing an internal Agile coaching capability and increasing the overall outcomes of business agility at Boeing.

Brey started her career as a software engineer in the F-22 program. She was one of the catalysts in bringing Agile into Boeing and leveraging those benefits beyond software organizations and products. She achieved recognition for her continued pursuit of improving outcomes by simplifying and clarifying guidance around Agile ways of working at Boeing, specifically how these methods could be embraced for cyber-physical systems.

With over 38 years of experience driving a lean-agile business transformation across the enterprise, Brey is a sought-after expert in improving business and organizational processes and developing software solutions. She holds multiple certifications from Scaled Agile, Inc., including SAFe® Practice Consultant Trainer and SAFe® Fellow designation.

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Jennifer Wales Fawcett

Jennifer is an empathic lean-agile leader, practitioner, coach, speaker, and consultant. Her passion and focus have been in delivering value in the workplace, as well as in shaping communities and culture through effective communication, product management, product ownership, executive portfolio coaching and leadership. She has provided dedicated service in these areas to technology companies for over 35 years.

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Malte Kumlehn

Malte Kumlehn is a Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP®) pioneer who helps clients harness the power of disruption with SAP delivery agility. He has over ten years of experience working with complex, distributed SAP program delivery initiatives, and is an early adopter of SAP DevOps and Agile at scale. Kumlehn is a team, program and C-level advisor and a SAFe® Summit speaker. He is a regular contributor to the fast-growing SAP delivery agility body of knowledge including providing thought leadership to Gartner and authoring the white paper, SAP Delivery Agility—Applying Essential SAFe® to Large-Scale SAP Implementations and Operations.

Malte's experience includes founding and managing the SAP Delivery Excellence (Agile for SAP) business at a top tier global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.

As a distinguished Advisor, Trainer, Speaker and Action Researcher, Malte developed the “minimum integrated business process” (MIBP) concept, as part of his Gartner thought leadership contribution published in Accenture's SAP Business Agility white paper, designed to elevate customer centric digital core enterprise solutions for co-creating breakthrough innovation to establish Business Agility. In addition to regular blogs and podcasts, Malte authored the advanced topic article: SAP Delivery Agility: Applying Essential SAFe® to large-scale SAP implementations and operations.

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Wolfgang Brandhuber

Before joining Project & Team, Wolfgang Brandhuber spent over 14 years at Accenture serving a range of large enterprise organizations throughout EMEA and all top companies based in Germany.

Accomplishing both undergraduate and PhD degrees from Friedrich-Alexander University, Wolfgang has over a decade of experience and held senior-level positions working on top healthcare, human resources, telecom, and insurance companies.

Wolfgang is an expert in Digital Transformation with unique experience and skills spanning HR transformations to cyber-physical deployments.

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Robin Yeman

Robin Yeman brings over 25 years of experience and proven ability to identify and evaluate market needs, build opportunities, and provide solutions leveraging best practices from Lean, Agile, and DevSecOps. Before joining Project & Team, Yeman spent almost three decades at Lockheed Martin advising entire product lifecycles and driving multi-billion dollar revenues by focusing on speed and agility.

Robin is a SAFe Fellow & SPCT with extensive experience in the continuous delivery of large cyber-physical systems. From submarines to space and biometrics to robotics, Yeman has supported most government agencies, including the intelligence community, federal space, Department of Defense, both domestic and international.

Robin is a Project & Team’s Strategic Advisory Board Member and is the Director of Cyber-Physical Advisory Practice.

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Cindy VanEpps

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.

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Audrey Boydston

Audrey Boydston is an experienced Lean-Agile coach, trainer, speaker and SAFe Program Consultant Trainer.

As a Certified Trainer for ‘Training from the BACK of the Room!’ and a Certified Facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and materials, her focus is on engaging her audiences and creating a love for lifelong learning through each workshop she creates and delivers.

Audrey has spent the majority of her career working for large enterprises in the financial services industry, including GE, Citigroup, Sears, Discover, HSBC, and Capital One. As an Agile Coach at Capital One, she launched a Community of Practice for around 75 SAFe Program Consultants from across the enterprise.

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Saahil Panikar

Saahil Panikar is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) with 10+ years of experience in Lean-Agile/SAFe coaching and Scrum Master in the tech industry (large/small business, startups, private and federal), in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Saahil has supported over 120 different Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe teams, 13 concurrently, and the longest for 39 sprints.

Launching over 50 Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and participated in or led 8 SAFe Transformations, Saahil has extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.

Key expertise include: Large Solution Trains, Shared Services and Data Management, Business Agility (Lean Portfolio Management), and cross-value steam Enterprise LACEs.

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