Renee, Craig and Tony (with a lurking Em Campbell-Pretty) in a very busy corridor with random bells ringing, catch up with Dean Leffingwell, author of numerous books including “Agile Software Requirements” and “Scaling Software Agility” and the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in a very candid discussion:

• the journey to SAFe included as a developer building the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ride and infusion pumps and generally a mission to make quality better
• epiphony around Agile was the step change around how teams perform and how they like their work when they perform better
• not everything that is old is stupid, “we are discovering new ways of developing software” and we need to ask ourselves are we still discovering
• Scrum is the only method that defines what a software team is (roles and size)
• SAFe is not a war it is…