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Agile Contracts Primer 40 pages on contracts in Scrum & agile delivery.	Lean Thinking Primer 45 pages on Lean Thinking and the Toyota Way.	Feature Teams Primer 50 pages on Scrum Feature Teams.

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Usually consulting; sometimes do interesting public events...

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Oct 9-12	Agile Design and Modeling for Advanced Object Design with Patterns	Oslo, NO	here

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... Outsourcing & Offshore Agile Delivery with Scrum	Challenges of Scaling Scrum & Agile Delivery Use Case Primer 40 pages on skillful modeling with use cases. Some extremists incorrectly declare that applying use cases is a bad practice. Nonsense! Applied skillfully, with agility, and in an evolutionary lightweight approach, use cases can be of great value.

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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.	What's New 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]

my hobby is very bad jokes; you were warned ;)

some of my books...