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[edit] Craig Larman

Management consultant, and author of some popular texts on agile methods and on software analysis & design:

• Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development
• Scaling Lean & Agile Development
• Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide
• Applying UML & Patterns: Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, & Iterative Development

My current focus is scaling lean and agile methods for a single product group of 200 to 2000 people (Asia, Europe & NA—usually multisite including offshore), and large (10,000+ people) enterprise transformations to lean and agile methods. Collecting these as Large-Scale Scrum. Much of my work is in large embedded systems (telecomm, control systems, printers, ...), investment banking, and energy and exploration industries.

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• Agile Contracts Primer. Free 40 page introduction to agile contracts.

• video of QCon presentation on "Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development."

• videos of QCon keynote and interview, on very large scale product development with Scrum.

• After my QCon keynote in London, wrote a short InfoQ article on practices for scaling agile design, that includes a free download of the Design & Architecture chapter from our Practices for Scaling book

• sample Scrum Product Backlog in a Google spreadsheet

• Our latest book (2010) Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum is now shipping. The companion book (2009) is Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

• All diagrams downloadable from our book Scaling Lean & Agile Development]