Drew Podwal
Agile for Agilists Podcast Co-host and Founder @The Agile For Agilists Podcast
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WORK HISTORY
Agile for Agilists Podcast Co-host and Founder @The Agile For Agilists Podcast
Stamford, CT, US
As the Co-Host of The Agile for Agilist Podcast, I facilitate inspiring, authentic and at times vulnerable conversations with scrum masters, agile coaches, and agile product development leaders. In each episode I get the opportunity to have deep and meaningful discussions along with my co-host Brad Nelson, and guest about the state of agile, and share contrasting agile stories and experiences as an agilist on a crazy agile journey.
EDUCATION
Naval Air Technical Training Command
Aviation Electronics, Avionics
SKILLS
ABOUT DREW PODWAL
Coach and facilitate core SAFe ceremonies and training, including SAFe for Teams, Leading SAFe, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and backlog refinement across team, product, and program layers. Coach business and product leaders to deconstruct strategic priorities, developing tangible product roadmaps that surface the alignment of business priorities with end user needs. Inspire systems based thinking; surfacing the impediments within the solution, value stream, people, management, and processes within the client organization. Facilitate consent based decision making, encouraging an agile approach to collecting and sharing information at the executive layer, encouraging the business to collectively learn from both successes and failures. Facilitate and coach ART Launch and PI Planning readiness; coaching stakeholders to define the inputs, milestones, and high-level objectives for upcoming ART launches and program increments Conduct value stream mapping, weighted shortest job first, and backlog refinement workshops; to surface business and end user needs to build and prioritize the product backlog. Promote core SAFe and Lean Agile systems of integrated, proven practices that have improved employee engagement, time-to-market, solution quality, and team productivity. Facilitate a pragmatic approach to Agile transformations, meeting my clients ‘where they are’ within their organizations existing Agile capabilities, creating strategic plans for growth that are realistic and achievable while maintaining a core focus on flow of value.
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