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Craig Larman

Craig Larman

He serves as chief scientist for Valtech, an international consulting company that applies Agile methods and object technologies, and is the author of "Agile and Iterative Development: a Manager's Guide", the best-selling and definitive guide to the motivation, evidence, and key practices of Iterative and Agile methods; and "Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to OOA/D and Iterative Development", the best-selling text on OOA/D and the UML, used globally in universities and Business. Mr. Larman is known throughout the international software community as an expert and coach in object technologies, OOA/D, Patterns, the UML, Agile modeling, an Agile approach to the Unified Process (UP), combining the UP with XP and Scrum practices, and Iterative Agile development methods. He travels worldwide to fulfill his passion to serve people through coaching, speaking, and education, helping software organizations succeed with high-impact Best Practices such as Iterative and Agile methods, design Patterns, automated continuous integration, and test-first development.

"Craig is a great teacher, a brilliant methodologist, and an 'OO guru'." Philippe Kruchten, Lead Architect, the Rational Unified Process; Author, The RUP: An Introduction "

Craig is articulate, moves people, is caring, is visionary and very perceptive about what works and what does not."

Peter Coad, CEO, TogetherSoft 

"Too few people have a knack for explaining things. Fewer still have a handle on software analysis and design. Craig Larman has both."

John Vlissides, Author, Design Patterns

"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, Author, UML Distilled and Refactoring 

"Applying UML and Patterns became the standard." Amazon Editors

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