Craig Larman, Management and Organizational-design Consultant

Craig Larman is a management and organizational-design consultant for enterprise adoptions and large-scale product delivery with lean principles and large-scale Scrum. Reflecting this experience, he is the co-author (with Bas Vodde) of Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools, and Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum. Over the years, Craig has coached management and delivery groups in the adoption of large-scale Scrum (LSS) and lean development for products (usually embedded systems) each with over 1,500 people, each spanning 5-10 sites worldwide. He has served as lead coach of lean software development at Xerox, introduced agile delivery in the USA defense industry, worked as the management consultant for LSS at Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, and UBS, and is currently working with the leadership team at Computer Associates on their LSS enterprise adoption. Craig has served as chief scientist at Valtech, a consulting and outsourcing company with a division in Bangalore, where he and colleagues created “agile offshore development”, while he was living and working in India and China. He also advises Indian and Eastern European outsourcers (including Wipro, Luxoft, and others) in their agile offshore and multisite development adoptions.