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Quotes from Industry Thought Leaders
Craig is articulate, moves people, is caring, is visionary and very perceptive about what works and what does not. — Peter Coad, former CEO, TogetherSoft; co-creator of the FDD Agile method and the (early) Coad-Yourdon OOA/D method; author of many influential books on methods, OO and modeling. Too few people have a knack for explaining things. Fewer still have a handle on software analysis and design. Craig Larman has both. — Dr. John Vlissides, author, Design Patterns and Pattern Hatching. |
(Craig is) a great teacher, a brilliant methodologist, and an ‘OO guru’. — Dr. Philippe Kruchten, architect of the Rational Unified Process; Professor of Software Engineering, UBC People often ask me which is the best book to introduce them to the world of OO design. Ever since I came across it Applying UML and Patterns has been my unreserved choice. — Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks, and author, UML Distilled, Refactoring, Planning Extreme Programming. |
Introduction
Craig Larman serves as a management consultant, with a focus on organizational redesign and mental models, towards the goal of high-value-throughput lean enterprises. His recent focus is leading teams and helping organizations to scale agile, lean thinking, and iterative methods to large, multi-site, and agile offshore development, and helping executive teams succeed with larger enterprise-level agile and lean methods adoption; these topics are the subject of his next two books:
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He is one of the earliest Practicing ScrumMasters and one of the first worldwide authorized to coach and certify new ScrumMasters, as a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He has helped lead Scrum adoption for organizations of over 25,000 developers.
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Sample Keynotes
- Agile India 2006, Bangalore, India
- Sun Java Conference 2005, Milan, Italy
- Agile Business Conference 2005, London, UK
- XP Agile Universe 2004, Calgary, Canada
- Agile Development 2004, Frankfurt, Germany
- Agile Development 2003, Sydney, Australia
- Agile Methods, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Net.ObjectDays 2002, Erfurt, Germany
- ROOTS 2002, Bergen Norway
- ISC Congress 2002, Guadalajara, Mexico
- OOP 2002, Munich Germany
- Fidelity 2002 Symposium. Boston, USA
- Siemens Agility Symposium 2001, Munich, Germany