Framework Team
Andrew Sales
Chief Methodologist and Chief Product Officer
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 keynote speaker at Agile conferences and contributor to the Agile community.
Dr. Steve Mayner
VP, AI Methodologies 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 9th 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.
Cheryl Crupi
VP, SAFe Methodologies 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 innovative Agilists in 40+ countries. Cheryl has over 25 years’ experience delivering business solutions in the telecom, financial services, and insurance industries. She has worked with the Scaled Agile Framework since its inception in 2011.
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.
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.
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.
Risa Wilmeth
Senior Visual Designer
Risa is a seasoned Senior Visual Designer with 20 years of experience creating compelling digital experiences for enterprise, nonprofit, and tech organizations. Risa delivers thoughtful, user-centered design solutions in fast-paced Agile environments, focusing on visual storytelling, brand development, and UX/UI. She collaborates with the Methodologists to visualize SAFe using iterative design practices and bridges creativity with functionality. She collaborates throughout Scaled Agile to enable Framework image integrity across products.
Dean Leffingwell
SAFe Creator and Scaled Agile Inc. Co Founder
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).
Last Update: 15 August 2025