We are very proud that Dean Leffingwell will be joining us and will facilitate an inspirational and educational keynote session. He is Director and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile, Inc. and he is the creator of SAFe. Among other, he is author of ‘Leading SAFe Live Lessons’ (2014) and ‘Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises’ (2007).
Dean Leffingwell, a forty-year software industry veteran, has spent his career helping software teams achieve their goals. A renowned methodologist, author, multi-entrepreneur, consultant and executive, he has founded multiple software companies, including Scaled Agile, Inc, and Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro, which was purchased by Rational Software (now IBM). He served as Vice President of Rational Software (now IBM) from 1997-2001. Later, as an independent consultant and advisor to Rally Software, he helped numerous distributed, multinational corporations implement Agile methods at scale.
He is the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework, a public-facing knowledge base of proven best practices that bring the benefits of software agility to the largest software enterprises. He currently serves as both Chief Methodologist and CEO at Scaled Agile, Inc., which he cofounded in 2011.