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		QCon Keynote: Scaling Agile & Scrum for Large, Multisite, or Offshore Delivery

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

Events

Usually consulting; sometimes do interesting public events...

Date	Event	Location	Register
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/contact... website in Chinese... Chinese version here. 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, ... Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development. Recommended Readings Read here... Book: Practices for Scaling... 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. Book: Practices for Scaling... 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, ... my hobby is very bad jokes; you were warned ;)

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Recommended readings. Educator resources. CN version here.

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]

some of my books...