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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 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 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.

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