SAFe CONTRIBUTORS

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SAFe CREATOR AND CHIEF METHODOLOGIST

Dean Leffingwell

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile software development practices, Dean Leffingwell, creator of SAFe, is an author, executive, entrepreneur, and methodologist. Alongside SAFe, his best-selling books, including Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile values, principles and practices. Founder of several successful startups, including RELA, Inc., Requisite, Inc., and Scaled Agile, Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as a Sr. Vice President at Rational Software (now part of IBM).


CHIEF METHODOLOGIST AND SAFe FELLOW

Andrew Sales

As Chief Methodologist, Andrew is passionate about helping SAFe Enterprises identify better ways of working through the application, of Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale and evolving SAFe guidance to support these goals. In addition, he fulfills the role of Framework Product Manager, ensuring that Scaled Agile has a clear vision, roadmap, and set of priorities for how the Framework will meet the needs of our customers.Andrew has successfully guided numerous organizations through SAFe transformations from across a wide range of industries, drawing on his many years of Lean and Agile experience. He previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally) and is a regular speaker at Agile conferences and contributor to the Agile community. He is a lifelong learner and recently completed research exploring how organizational structure impacts organizational performance.


SAFe METHODOLOGISTS

Dr. Steve Mayner

SAFe Fellow and PrincipalVP Framework, Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Dr. Steve Mayner has a passion for coaching businesses on digital age leadership, organizational change, continuous learning culture, artificial intelligence, Agile contracts, and SAFe practice in government. His 35-year career in business includes roles as Vice President in multiple Fortune 500 companies and Chief Technology Officer for a Health IT startup. Now in his 7th year at Scaled Agile Inc., Steve serves as Framework VP and senior leadership team member, contributing to strategy formulation, Lean Portfolio Management, and business operations.

Dr. Harry Koehnemann

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Harry focuses on the Enterprise Solution Delivery domain and software and systems engineering practices in SAFe. He spent 10 years as a software engineer and another 20 consulting with large-system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and others to improve their execution with product development lifecycle practices including Lean Systems Engineering, MBSE, and Agile requirements, quality, and compliance activities. Harry is a regular presenter at Agile and systems engineering conferences.

Inbar Oren

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Inbar has more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech market. For the last fifteen years, he has been helping development organizations—in both software and integrated systems—improve results by adopting Lean-Agile best practices and SAFe. As a Methodologist, Inbar contributed to the evolution of the framework since joining the company in 2014.

Marc Rix

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Marc specializes in Agile Product Delivery, Team and Technical Agility, and applying Lean-Agile concepts throughout the enterprise. He is a former Scaled Agile partner and customer with a long history of leading large companies through complex Agile and DevOps transformations. His Agile experience spans more than 25 years and has included roles in development, operations, architecture, coaching, leadership, and business development.

Rebecca Davis

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Rebecca has diverse experiences across the spectrum of Scaled Agile competencies.  She has led from within startups, led large business agility transformations in the Global 500, and is an entrepreneur.  Rebecca focuses on creating connections of strategy through the execution of the broader organization, including all areas of an enterprise towards working differently with more joy.

Cheryl Crupi

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Cheryl is passionate about helping business leaders learn, believe in and practice generative behaviors that create the conditions for Agility to thrive. In over a decade as an enterprise Agile change champion in Fortune 500 companies, she successfully activated confident, adaptive and innovate Agilists in 40+ countries. Cheryl has over 25 years’ experience in delivering business solutions in the telecom, financial services and insurance industries. She has worked with Scaled Agile Framework since its inception in 2011.


PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS

Alex Yakyma

Principal Contributor

Alex is a transformation consultant, author, and technology leader that continues to be directly involved in building complex solutions. As a methodologist and trainer, he has led numerous rollouts of SAFe, involving teams in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has trained over a thousand coaches and change agents whose key role is to help their organizations achieve higher productivity and quality by adopting scalable, Agile methods. As an early innovator, author, and proponent of SAFe, Alex returns this year to contribute to the latest version. 

Richard Knaster

SAFe Fellow and Principal Contributor

Richard has 30 years of experience in software and systems development and has led large-scale Agile transformations for over 15 years. He is a SAFe Fellow and a Principal Contributor to SAFe. He is the co-author of SAFe® Distilled and the SAFe® Reference Guide and contributed to the SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management course, among others. Richard is a keynote speaker and has written several white papers on SAFe, Value Stream Management, and Technology Business Management.


SAFe FELLOWS

The SAFe Fellow achievement is Scaled Agile’s most prestigious distinction, recognizing individuals who have exhibited the highest level of thought leadership and transformational expertise for implementing the Scaled Agile Framework. The SAFe Fellows program recognizes a select number of individuals with the depth and breadth of experience to work at the highest levels of complexity in enterprise transformation and strategy, and who have established themselves as thought leaders in Lean-Agile development. In addition, many have contributed—directly or indirectly—to core SAFe guidance and advanced topic articles.  We are humbled and honored to work with these individuals to the benefit of all those who build and use the world’s most important systems.


SAFe COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS

In addition to the direct participation of the Methodologists and Fellows in developing SAFe content, there is an active community of SPCs and others who contribute to the IP that makes SAFe safe. One such forum is the Community Contributions section of this website. These contributors provide articles that interpret and extend SAFe based on their direct, personal, and specialized experiences. These articles are peer-reviewed, but the opinions expressed are those of the attributed authors.

Niko Kaintantzis
Participatory Budgeting: Understanding Color of Money and Other Constraints
Claus Hirzmann
Improving Portfolio Outcomes with Real Options
Joseph Montalbano, SPC
Using Human-Centered Design With SAFe
Brad Lehman
Using Human-Centered Design With SAFe
Melissa Reeve
Melissa Reeve
SAFe for Marketing white paper
Peter Vollmer, SPCT
Accelerating Flow with DevSecOps and the Software Factory
Cindy VanEpps, SPCT
Hardware Teams in SAFe
Jon Feld, COO of The Feld Group
Eliminating the Blind Spot: A Proven Approach to Enterprise Technology Strategy Formulation
Ken Pugh
Agile Software Engineering courseware plus collaboration on team-level competency, testing, and quality articles
Natalie Warnert, SPC
Lean UX and the SAFe PI Life Cycle
Lori Priller, SPC
An HR Playbook for a Successful SAFe Implementation
Zach Nies
Collaboration in the SAFe Lean Budget Guardrails article
Fabiola_Eyholzer
Fabiola Eyholzer, SPC
Talent Enablement Guide for a SAFe Organization in FinTech
Joseph Barjis, PhD
Launching an Enterprise Agile Transformation at a Large Insurance Company
Scott Prugh, SPC
Continuous Delivery
Glenn Smith, SPCT
Running the transformation using a SAFe Agile Release Train
Charlie Fleet
Running the transformation using a SAFe Agile Release Train
Juha-Markus Aalto
Applying SAFe in the smaller enterprise
Hao Li, iSPCT
Embracing SAFe in Finance to become a Data-Driven Company

The Scaled Agile Framework has been proven to deliver substantial business benefits in a large number of software and systems enterprises. We admire these companies for the courage to innovate, and we are indebted to them for the feedback they have provided. Specifically, we’d like to thank the many companies in our Customer Stories, each of whom has adopted the Framework and many of whom have provided specific input to help it evolve.


ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The contributors to Agile Software Requirements

Initial concepts behind the Framework were first documented in Scaling Software Agility, but the Framework per se was first documented in Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (ASR), so it’s appropriate to repeat and update the book acknowledgments here. Thanks to the ASR reviewers, Gabor Gunyho, Robert Bogetti, Sarah Edrie, and Brad Jackson. Don Reinertsen provided permission to use elements of Principles of Product Development Flow. Thanks to my Finnish collaborators Juha-Markus Aalto, Maarit Laanti, Santeri Kangas, Gabor Gunyho, and Kuan Eeik Tan. Alistair Cockburn, Don Widrig, Mauricio Zamora, Pete Behrens, Jennifer Fawcett, and Alexander Yakyma contributed directly to book content.

A special acknowledgment to the Agile thought leaders

Of course, SAFe stands on the shoulders of many who came before us, particularly the Agile thought leaders who created the industry movement. It starts with the signers of the Agile Manifesto and continues with those outspoken thought leaders who have helped move the industry toward the new paradigm. The following have contributed most directly to our understanding of Agile development: Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Ron Jeffries, Mike Cohn, David Anderson, Jeff Sutherland, Craig Larman, Ken Schwaber, Scott Ambler, and Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Others are acknowledged in the bibliography below.

A special acknowledgment to the Lean leaders

We are also fortunate to stand on the shoulders of Lean thought leaders, including Don Reinertsen, Jeffrey Liker, Gene Kim, Mik Kersten, Jez Humble, Eli Goldratt, Eric Ries, Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden, Henrik Kniberg, Dr. Alan Ward, Jim Sutton, Michael Kennedy, Dantar Oosterwal, Steve Womack, and Daniel Jones.

W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming

And to Edwards Deming

Finally, where would we be without the seminal works of W. Edwards Deming, to whom we perhaps owe the deepest gratitude of all? He was a visionary, whose tireless quest for the truth and unwavering belief in continual improvement led to a set of transformational theories and teachings that changed the way we think about quality, management, and leadership. The impact of his revolutionary ideas has been compared to those of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud. Others have referred to him as the father of the third phase of the Industrial Revolution.

LEARN MORE about Edwards Deming at The Deming Institute.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

SAFe is based on our own work, the work of the contributors and SPCs worldwide, and an incredible body of knowledge about Agile, Lean Thinking, Lean product development, systems thinking, organizational change management, human potential, business strategy, management philosophy, and more. Each of the books and articles in the bibliography below have contributed materially to the authors’ perspectives and are integral to what makes SAFe ‘safe.’

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  • The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality. Joyce Nilsson Orsini (ed.). McGraw-Hill Education, 2012.
  • The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management. Peter F. Drucker. HarperBusiness, 2008.
  • Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. Kenneth S. Rubin. Addison-Wesley, 2012.
  • Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan Shalloway, Scott Bain, Ken Pugh, and Amir Kolsky. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
  • “Establishing an Agile Portfolio to Align IT Investments with Business Needs.” Joseph Thomas and Steven Baker, DTE Energy. http://www.jctnet.us/Professional/Agile/CD-ThomasBaker-EstablishAgilePortfolio-Paper.pdf.
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  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. North River Press, 2014.
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  • Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration. Ken Pugh. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
  • Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility. Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, and James R. Trott. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
  • Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development. James Coplien and Gertrud Bjørnvig. Wiley, 2010.
  • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. Jezz Humble et al. O’Reilly Media, 2015.
  • Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban. Henrik Kniberg. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011.
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  • Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams. Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. O’Reilly Media, 2016
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  • Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. Jurgen Appelo. Addison-Wesley, 2011.
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  • The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Donald G. Reinertsen. Celeritas Publishing, 2009.
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