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His work includes the best-seller globally on agile methods: <span style="color:red">''Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide''</span>. Reflecting his passion for and leadership in skillful design and modeling, Craig Larman is the author of <span style="color:red">''Applying UML and Patterns—An Introduction to OOA/D and Iterative Development''</span>, the world’s best-selling text on OOA/D, iterative development, modeling and the UML, translated to many languages and used worldwide in industry and colleges as the standard for learning software design, modeling, design patterns, and OOA/D. | His work includes the best-seller globally on agile methods: <span style="color:red">''Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide''</span>. Reflecting his passion for and leadership in skillful design and modeling, Craig Larman is the author of <span style="color:red">''Applying UML and Patterns—An Introduction to OOA/D and Iterative Development''</span>, the world’s best-selling text on OOA/D, iterative development, modeling and the UML, translated to many languages and used worldwide in industry and colleges as the standard for learning software design, modeling, design patterns, and OOA/D. | ||
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Craig is known throughout the international software community as an expert in large-scale adoption and application of agile project and product management, agile offshore development, large-scale Scrum, Lean product development, and modern analysis, design, and modeling. | Craig is known throughout the international software community as an expert in large-scale adoption and application of agile project and product management, agile offshore development, large-scale Scrum, Lean product development, and modern analysis, design, and modeling. | ||
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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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Craig is known throughout the international software community as an expert in large-scale adoption and application of agile project and product management, agile offshore development, large-scale Scrum, Lean product development, and modern analysis, design, and modeling.
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Sample Keynotes
- Agile India 2006, Bangalore, India
- Agile Business Conference 2005, London, UK
- XP Agile Universe 2004, Calgary, Canada