Episode 40: Dean Leffingwell on The Practices and Behaviors of High-Performing Teams Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten

We’re delighted to welcome back Leffingwell, Co-founder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile. Dean is an entrepreneur and software development methodologist best known for creating SAFe®, the most widely used framework for business Agility.
In this episode, Mik and Dean focus on practices and behaviors of high-performing teams, digging into their own experiences on what makes teams thrive. Additional topics include:
Dean’s learnings on what he has seen with large transformations using SAFe
Insight into how and why the Flow Metrics were incorporated into SAFe 5.1
The importance of predictability in the enterprise
The evolution of the Scrum Master role
Measuring the system and outcomes, the different levels of team metrics, and who owns the Flow competency, outcomes and improvements of those metrics
What makes a high performing team in 2021 and what Dean’s predictions on how this may look in 2025 
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For more information about Dean Leffingwell and to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, as well as download the transcript, visit: https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/dean-leffingwell-2/