Craig Larman

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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 emphasis 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 latest two books: Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Products with Large-Scale Scrum Craig works as the lead coach of lean product development adoption at Xerox, and serves as a consultant for large-scale Scrum and enterprise agile adoption at Nokia and Siemens Networks (now, NSN), at Statoil (in Norway), at Alcatel-Lucent, 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, 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 focuses on product groups that involve many hundreds of people, usually multisite.

His work includes the best-seller globally on agile methods: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide. Reflecting his passion for and leadership in skillful design and modeling, Craig Larman is the author of Applying UML and Patterns—An Introduction to OOA/D and Iterative Development, 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. 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. 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 holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from beautiful SFU in Vancouver, BC, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having little of his own).

Sample Keynotes

• Agile India 2006, Bangalore, India
• Agile Business Conference 2005, London, UK
• XP Agile Universe 2004, Calgary, Canada