Dean Leffingwell is the Cofounder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile. Dean is an entrepreneur who is best known for creating the Scaled Agile Framework for the enterprise, or SAFe®.

He has long history of entrepreneurship, having founded several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc. (acquired by Rational). Dean is also the author of several foundational books, including Agile Software Requirements, Scaling Software Agility, and SAFe® Distilled.

Today, Dean continues to help evolve SAFe’s knowledge base of proven best practices, and bring the benefits of software agility and lean thinking to the largest software enterprises.