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Craig Larman is the co-creator of [http://less.works LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)], with his friend and colleague Bas Vodde. He works as an organizational design consultant, introducing LeSS with executive teams for very large and multisite product development (often, HW-SW systems). He also works with product management for highly complex product definitions, and hands-on as an embedded-systems legacy-code C and C++ TDD coach, to keep in touch with the real work and workers.
 
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Although one of the very first LeSS trainers and CSTs, he practices and encourages a focus on doing over teaching.
 
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Craig has been named one of the [http://www.valueflowquality.com/the-top-20-most-influential-agile-people top 20 Agile influencers of all time] and is the co-author of several books on scaling lean & agile development with LeSS, including:
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* [[Books by Craig Larman | Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum]]
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* [[Books by Craig Larman | Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum]]
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* [[Books by Craig Larman | Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide]]
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Craig has served as the lead coach of lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS and large-scale agile adoptions at BMW (on the autonomous-driving car LeSS adoption), Ericsson, JP Morgan, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alcatel-Lucent, UBS, bwin.party, and Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, among many other clients. Craig has also served as chief scientist at Valtech, with a division in Bengaluru where together they evolved LeSS for agile offshore development.
 
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<span style="color:red">''Craig is articulate, moves people, is caring, is visionary and very perceptive about what works and what does not.''</span>  — 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.
 
 
<span style="color:red">''Too few people have a knack for explaining things. Fewer still have a handle on software analysis and design. Craig Larman has both.''</span>  — Dr. John Vlissides, author, ''Design Patterns'' and ''Pattern Hatching''.
 
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<span style="color:red"> ''(Craig is) a great teacher, a brilliant methodologist, and an ‘OO guru’.'' </span> — Dr. Philippe Kruchten, architect of the Rational Unified Process;  Professor of Software Engineering, UBC
 
 
<span style="color:red">''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.''</span>  — Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks, and author, ''UML Distilled'', ''Refactoring'', ''Planning Extreme Programming''.
 
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His work includes one of the first and best-selling globally popular books on agile methods: [[Books by Craig Larman | Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide]].
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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:
 
* [[Book - Scaling Lean and Agile - Thinking and Organizational Tools | ''Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools'']]
 
* [[Book - Practices for Scaling Lean and Agile | ''Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Products with Large-Scale Scrum'']]
 
 
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Craig works as the lead of lean product development adoption at Xerox, and serves as the main consultant for large-scale Scrum and enterprise agile adoption at Nokia and Siemens Networks (now, NSN), at StatoilHydro (in Norway), and at Schlumberger and UBS, among many other clients. Craig has served as chief scientist at Valtech, a consulting, outsourcing, and skills transfer organization with divisions in many countries, based in Paris, France, with a division in Bangalore that applies agile methods to offshore development. In his role at Valtech, he created "agile offshore development" while living in India and China. His work involves single-product groups that range (at the low end) of 150 people, up to 600 people, usually multisite.  
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He was one of the first [http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/clarman Certified Scrum Trainers] and <span style="color:red">practicing Scrum Master</span>, starting in the 1990s while at Chevron Research.
 
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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.
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In addition to debugging and re-designing  organizations, Craig is an expert in designing (and helping people to design) software systems. He is the author of [[Books by Craig Larman | Applying UML & Patterns: Object-Oriented Analysis & Design]], one of the world’s best-selling texts on software design, translated to many languages and used worldwide in universities and industry as the standard for introducing software analysis and design, modeling, design patterns, architecture, and OOA/D.
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He is one of the earliest <span style="color:red">Practicing ScrumMasters</span> and one of the first worldwide authorized to coach and certify new ScrumMasters, as a <span style="color:red">Certified ScrumMaster Trainer</span>. He has helped lead Scrum adoption for organizations of over 25,000 developers.
 
 
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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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Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from beautiful [http://www.sfu.ca/ SFU] in Vancouver, BC, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own).
 
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* Agile India 2006, Bangalore, India
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* [https://www.scrumalliance.org/sgblr Global Scrum Gathering 2016]
* Agile Business Conference 2005, London, UK
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*[http://www.manage-agile.de/archive/handouts-2015.html Manage Agile 2015]
* XP Agile Universe 2004, Calgary, Canada
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* [http://www.almchicago.com/ Agile Leadership & Management 2015]
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* [http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/2014_Software_Executive_Summit_-_Registration_is_Now_Open Software Executive Summit 2014]
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* [http://2013.agileindia.org/program/ Agile India 2013].
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* [http://qconlondon.com/ QCon 2011]. [http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Large-Multisite-or-Offshore-Delivery video] of talk.

Latest revision as of 11:44, 1 February 2019

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Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), with his friend and colleague Bas Vodde. He works as an organizational design consultant, introducing LeSS with executive teams for very large and multisite product development (often, HW-SW systems). He also works with product management for highly complex product definitions, and hands-on as an embedded-systems legacy-code C and C++ TDD coach, to keep in touch with the real work and workers.

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mailto:craig@less.works

Although one of the very first LeSS trainers and CSTs, he practices and encourages a focus on doing over teaching.

Craig has been named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time and is the co-author of several books on scaling lean & agile development with LeSS, including:

Craig has served as the lead coach of lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS and large-scale agile adoptions at BMW (on the autonomous-driving car LeSS adoption), Ericsson, JP Morgan, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alcatel-Lucent, UBS, bwin.party, and Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, among many other clients. Craig has also served as chief scientist at Valtech, with a division in Bengaluru where together they evolved LeSS for agile offshore development.

His work includes one of the first and best-selling globally popular books on agile methods: Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide.

He was one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers and practicing Scrum Master, starting in the 1990s while at Chevron Research.

In addition to debugging and re-designing organizations, Craig is an expert in designing (and helping people to design) software systems. He is the author of Applying UML & Patterns: Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, one of the world’s best-selling texts on software design, translated to many languages and used worldwide in universities and industry as the standard for introducing software analysis and design, modeling, design patterns, architecture, and OOA/D.

Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from beautiful SFU in Vancouver, BC, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own).

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Recent-ish Keynotes