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Craig Larman

Author of some popular texts on agile methods and on software analysis & design:

• 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 tips to be call Large-Scale Scrum. Much of my work is in the telecommunications domain and in large embedded systems, but I also have helped agile adoptions in financial and other sectors.

What's New

• 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

• Lean Primer: Free 45+ page introduction to lean thinking. Tell your colleagues!

• Recommended readings.

• Here is the Lean Thinking house, that summarizes the Toyota Way.

• Reflecting my work over recent years, my second-most-recent book is Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum, with my co-author Bas Vodde, who has long and in-depth experience with very large agile product development and enterprise transformations (at Nokia Networks and NSN).

• Sample FEATURE TEAMS chapter from new book—We've provided the sample chapter on Feature Teams here.

• Agile modeling pics in the environments i encourage.