Project & Team Accelerates Growth with Appointment of Malte Kumlehn to Strategic Advisory Board and Director of SAP Business Agility Advisory Practice

Strategic Hire of SAFe Fellow Expedites Momentum and the Rapid Adoption of Business Agility

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 21, 2021 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization and digital transformation specialists, today announced Malte Kumlehn has been appointed to Strategic Advisory Board and Director SAP Business Agility Advisory.

Based in Heidelberg, Germany, Kumlehn is the first SAFe® Fellow, Applied SAFe® Advisory Board Member and ICAgileTM Enterprise Agility Coach to help deliver complex cloud enabled digital transformations.

“Organizations are investing in modernizing their portfolios which requires optimizing business operating models to achieve value delivery, increase productivity and drive innovation. Lean-Agile is the blueprint for enterprises to achieve this goal,” stated Jeff Shupack. “Malte’s experience and credentials combines transformational and business mastery with deep technical understanding on how live, complex business critical systems evolve and scale. We are thrilled to have him join our incredible team.”

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 Accenture 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.

About Project & Team

Project & Team is a group of transformation experts working for leading Fortune 500 companies, including Aerospace, Defense, Energy, Finance, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, and Telecom, as well as State and National Government Agencies. The global reputation for assisting customers achieve business agility and respond quickly to market changes and emerging opportunities by using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe©), Lean-Agile, DevSecOps, and Design Thinking practices to deliver innovative, high-quality products & services continually is what sets the firm apart in a complex world. Connect with us LinkedIn and Twitter

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