Richard Knaster is a SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile Inc. He has more than 30 years’ experience in software and systems development, in roles ranging from developer to executive, and has been leading large-scale agile transformations for well over 15 years. Richard actively works on advancing SAFe’s Lean-Agile methods as a SAFe Fellow and methodologist. As a principal consultant, he is passionate about helping organizations create a better environment to deliver value, improve quality and flow, and be more engaging and fun. Richard is the co-author of the SAFe Distilled and the SAFe Reference Guide book series. He is also the author of the SAFe 4.6 Introduction to SAFe whitepaper.