Helen is a Principal PM, RTE, Agile Coach, SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) experienced at working with organizations to apply Agile/Lean practices at enterprise scale from team to program to portfolio levels. She is experienced in driving program/portfolio strategy for cloud (Azure) infrastructure, platforms, properties, and applications. She has trained management and teams to ease their adoption of SAFe®, Agile (Kanban & Scrum), and hybrid methods (and the associated tools) across the IT, SAP, BI, Cloud, Telecom, and consumer product sectors. Helen’s diverse background includes hands-on management time, including in P&L. She simplifies hard problems and drives collaboration and partnerships within large Mobile, Cloud, and BI solutions.

As a resourceful advocate of Agile, Helen enriches SAFe by tapping heavily into her multi-cultural background, incorporating locally adaptive ideas and bringing forward transferable skills that can be applied not only in the U.S., but also the Chinese market.

“One of the finest trainers I have ever worked with.”

—Bella P. Principal Technical Program Manager

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Yudha is a seasoned Technical PM at a large telecom company with over 17 years of experience working in IT and ITSM. Diversely experienced in different fields with multiple advanced degrees including a Bachelor’s degree in English, a Master’s degree in Management & Marketing, Yudha also holds a number of current certifications in Project Management (PMP), SAFe Leader (SA), ITIL V3 in IT Service Management and Scrum Master (CSM) and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).

Yudha has managed many high profile projects such as the notable MyXO Customer Portal project, one that exposed to the world of Agile, SDLC, DevOps, Release Trains, Kai Zen, KanBan, Scrum, MVP and vendor management and was given one of the company’s most coveted recognition awards: The APEX Award for his excellence in managing its TRUST program – XO’s customer retention initiatives. 

Sarah L. Stewart, SPC, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO

Sarah is a Senior Technical PM, Agile Coach, and consultant. She helps organizations, from individual teams all the way up to the enterprise level, adopt Agile/Lean practices and frameworks. She works as a coach, trainer, mentor, and writer. Sarah holds current certifications from Scaled Agile (Scaled Agile consultant) and the Scrum Alliance (certified scrum professional as both a Scrum Master and Product Owner).

She started her career as a software engineer at Microsoft shortly after getting her BA in Computer Science. After 15 years in engineering she caught the “Agile bug” and went into consulting. She’s served in every major role on an Agile team (engineer, manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Coach), and is adept in coaching on XP practices and how to apply them to SAFe and DevOps, particularly at a technical level. She believes in taking a pragmatic approach to Agile adoption: learn the methodologies and frameworks and then adapt them to fit the specific organization’s requirements, but without wavering from the methodology’s central values and principles. She teaches from experience, as she’s been in the trenches herself many times.

Sarah has managed a large-scale Agile transformation at Microsoft and is currently coaching at T-Mobile.