Personal Details

First Name

Dean

Last Name

Leffingwell

Employer

Consultant/author

Years Experience in Agile

10+

Short Bio

Dean Leffingwell is a consultant, entrepreneur, software executive and technical author who provides product strategy, business advisory services and enterprise-level agility coaching to large software enterprises.

From 2006-2007, Mr. Leffingwell was founder and CEO of consumer marketing identity company ProQuo, Inc. Mr. Leffingwell has also served as chief methodologist to Rally Software and as business consultant to Ping Identity Corporation and Roving Planet, Inc.

Formerly, Mr. Leffingwell served as Vice President of Rational Software, now IBM’s Rational Division, where he was responsible for the Rational Unified Process and promulgation of the UML. Previously, Leffingwell was co-founder and CEO of software tools company Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro for requirements management, which was acquired by Rational. Mr. Leffingwell was also the founder and CEO of RELA, Inc., and publicly held Colorado MEDtech.

Mr. Leffingwell has been a student, coach and author of contemporary software engineering and software development management practices throughout his career. His latest book, Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for the Large Enterprises was published by Addison-Wesley in 2007. He is also the lead author of the text Managing Software Requirements, First and Second Editions, also from Addison-Wesley. Mr. Leffingwell holds a Masters Degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado.

History

Member for

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