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mailto:craig@craiglarman.com

Google Hangouts & Skype: craig.larman

Text/voice: +1 214 914 7593

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Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and since 2005 has worked with clients to apply the LeSS framework for scaling lean thinking and agile development to large, multisite, and offshore development. He helps senior-management teams by organizational-design consulting for groups adopting LeSS.

Craig has been named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time and is the author of several books on scaling lean & agile development with LeSS, including:



Craig has served as the lead coach of large-scale lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS at Ericsson, JP Morgan, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alcatel-Lucent, UBS, bwin.party, Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, and Ion Trading, among many other clients. Craig has also served as chief scientist at Valtech and while living in Bengaluru India, at Valtech’s development centre helped to create agile offshore development with LeSS.

His work includes the best-seller globally on agile methods: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide. Craig 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 introducing software design, modeling, design patterns, architecture, and OOA/D.

He is one of the earliest Practicing ScrumMasters and one of the first worldwide authorized to coach and certify new ScrumMasters and Product Owners, as a Certified Scrum Trainer. He has helped lead Scrum adoption for organizations of over 25,000 developers. Craig is known throughout the software community as an expert in large-scale adoption and application of agile product management, agile offshore development, large-scale Scrum, lean product development, and modern analysis, design, and modeling.

Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from beautiful SFU in Vancouver, BC, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own).

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Quotes from Industry Thought Leaders

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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