Doug Knesek is a developer, coach, and leader of agile teams and organizations with nearly 30 years of industry experience. Doug started developing software in about 1990 when waterfall was king. He abandoned waterfall and transitioned to the Unified Process in 1995, then abandoned that in favor of Extreme Programming in the year 2000. Doug is a PSM and a SAFe® 4 Program Consultant (SPC). He is currently the Director of Agile Development & Coaching at Wisconsin-based Flexion, leading agile transformations and agile teams that serve both private and public sector clients. Prior to Flexion, Doug worked in e-commerce at Amazon in addition to other large companies in a broad range of sectors including state and federal government, education, energy, and financial services.