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Events & Courses with Craig Larman

Usually consulting; sometimes do interesting public or semi-public events...

Date	Event	Location	Register
*many*	Course: Certified LeSS Practitioner	*many*	register
Oct 19-21	CSM+ with Craig Larman	Olso NO	register
Oct 22-23	CSPO with Craig Larman	Olso NO	register
Oct 26-28	CSM+ with Craig Larman	Rome IT	register
Oct 29-30	Agile TDD & Refactoring with Craig Larman	Rome IT	register

Some Videos

8-minute Introduction to LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) and Scaling	Cognitive Biases, Systems Optimizations, and Component Teams	Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development.

Articles & Videos

LeSS Adoption at JP Morgan Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) at J.P. Morgan	Forming Teams in Large-Scale Scrum A Story of Self-Designing Teams	Larman's Laws of Org Behavior Dynamics of real change being introduced

Crosstalk Article: Scaling Agile Scaling with Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)	LeSS Adoption at Ericcson Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) at Ericsson	a JIRA List is not a Product Backlog What? The tool vendor said it was...

Agile Contracts Primer 40 pages on contracts in Scrum & agile delivery	Lean Thinking   Primer 45 pages on Lean Thinking & Toyota Way	Agile Architecture & Design Primer Architecture & design in Large-Scale Scrum

Feature Teams Primer 50 pages on Scrum Feature Teams	Diagrams Large-Scale Scrum Download from our book Practices for Scaling	Lean Thinking   Primer 45 pages on Lean Thinking & Toyota Way

Interesting Things try a quirky blog of idiosyncratically interesting things Craig Larman Made #8 on "the top 20 most influential agile people". Thank you! Management consultant on scaling lean & agile product development with large-scale Scrum, and author of popular texts on agile and multisite & offshore, and on software analysis & design. More/contact... 中文站 website in Chinese... Chinese version here thanks to Charlie Zhang. Outsourcing & Offshore Agile Delivery with Scrum (part 1) Interesting Spock-toid of the month This research could be a profound milestone in science; it hints at the real core, subtle mechanism of memory encoding. it involves interaction of calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase complex II and tubulin protein compounds, which occupy the interiors of brain neurons. More at the Interesting Things Blog... Book: Practices for Scaling... Title: Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum Reflecting our work over recent years, this text explores scaling lean and agile development with Large-Scale Scrum. It was written with my co-author Bas Vodde, who has long and in-depth experience with very large agile product development and enterprise transformations, and like me, has worked in large embedded systems. It explores concrete practices for large-scale lean product development or agile development with large-scale Scrum, including requirements, contracts, architecture and design, agile offshore development, large-scale multisite development, coordination, and planning multi-hundred-person product group development, and more. Table of Contents, Sample Chapters, ... All diagrams downloadable from our book Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development. Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development. Book: Agile & Iterative... Title: Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide A popular introduction to agile and iterative methods. It introduces the big ideas of iterative and evolutionary development, agile methods, and a variety of agile and of purely iterative methods: Scrum, XP, UP, and Evo.

Challenges of Scaling Scrum & Agile Delivery Agile Architecture & Design Primer 45 pages on scaling the practice of agile architecture and design in large-scale Scrum product development. QCon Keynote: Scaling Agile & Scrum for Large, Multisite, or Offshore Delivery Use Case Primer 40 pages on skillful modeling with use cases. Some extremists declare that applying use cases is a bad practice. Nonsense! Applied skillfully and with agility use cases can be of great value. Agile India Keynote: LeSS: Large-Scale Scrum Use Case Primer 40 pages on skillful modeling with use cases. Some extremists declare that applying use cases is a bad practice. Nonsense! Applied skillfully and with agility use cases can be of great value. Book: Scaling Lean & Agile... Title: Scaling Lean and Agile - Thinking and Organizational Tools Reflecting our work over recent years, this text explores scaling lean and agile development with Large-Scale Scrum. It was written with my co-author Bas Vodde, who has long and in-depth experience with very large agile product development and enterprise transformations, and like me, has worked in large embedded systems. This books explores the foundation for a successful enterprise transformation to large-scale lean or agile product development: the thinking tools and organizational redesign tools necessary to lay the foundation for new practices. Without leadership (and others) that understand and institute these foundational elements, it is difficult to succeed with applying the practices. Table of Contents, Sample Chapters, ... All diagrams downloadable from our book Scaling Lean & Agile Development Recommended Readings Read here... my hobby is very bad jokes; you were warned ;)