Craig Larman
contact me: mailto:craig@craiglarman.com
Quotes from Industry Thought Leaders
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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. |
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Introduction
Craig Larman serves as chief scientist at Valtech, an international consulting, outsourcing, and skills transfer organization with divisions in seven countries. His recent focus is leading teams and helping organizations to scale agile, lean thinking, and iterative methods to large, multi-site, and agile offshore projects, and helping executive teams succeed with larger enterprise-level agile and lean methods adoption; these topics will be the subject of his next book: Scaling Agile, Lean & Iterative Development.
Reflecting his focus on helping people apply iterative and agile methods, his newest work is the best-seller globally on agile methods: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide. Reflecting his passion for and leadership in OO 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 a certified Practicing ScrumMaster and one of the few people worldwide authorized to coach and certify new ScrumMasters. He has helped lead Scrum adoption for organizations of over 2,000 developers. Craig is known throughout the international software community as an expert in large-scale adoption and application of agile project and product management, a blended approach to scaling agile methods that combines Scrum with the Spiral Invariants, Lean Thinking principles, the XP engineering practices, OOA/D and design patterns, the UML, and agile modeling.
Craig is a popular speaker at public and private industry conferences, presenting keynotes worldwide. Please see www.craiglarman.com for an updated description. He works worldwide, from Indiana to India.