About the Authors

Richard Knaster is a SAFe Fellow, Principal Consultant, and a member of the Framework team at Scaled Agile, Inc., which develops new versions of SAFe. He has over 25 years’ experience in software development in roles ranging from developer to executive and has been involved in large-scale Agile transformations for well over a decade.

Dean Leffingwell is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices and is an author, entrepreneur, and software development methodologist. He currently serves as CEO and Chief Methodologist to Scaled Agile, Inc., which he co-founded in 2011.