Bas Vodde
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**Summary:**
Bas Vodde is best known as co-creator of the LeSS framework and co-author (with Craig Larman) of three major books on scaling agile and lean development. His work emphasizes minimalism, empiricism, and organizational design for large-scale product development. He has also contributed technical articles, open-source tools, and extensive guidance through the LeSS community and Odd-e.
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## Books
### 1. **Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS**
**Authors:** Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
**Description:**
This book is the definitive guide to the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework, distilled from over a decade of experience in large-scale agile adoptions. Larman and Vodde present a minimalistic scaling framework that extends Scrum principles to large product development efforts, emphasizing simplicity, empiricism, and organizational descaling. The book provides concrete rules, guides, and experiments for adopting LeSS, along with practical advice for cross-team coordination, backlog management, and systems thinking. It serves as both an introduction and a reference for organizations seeking to scale agile while keeping teams empowered and adaptive.
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### 2. **Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum**
**Authors:** Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
**Description:**
This foundational book explores the thinking tools and organizational patterns necessary for successful large-scale agile development. Larman and Vodde introduce systems thinking, lean principles, and organizational design concepts that underpin effective scaling. The book is rich in case studies, patterns, and practical guidance for leaders and practitioners seeking to apply agile and lean principles across multiple teams and complex products.
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### 3. **Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum**
**Authors:** Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
**Description:**
A companion to their earlier work, this book provides over 600 pages of concrete practices, experiments, and real-world examples for scaling agile and lean development. Larman and Vodde cover topics such as multisite and offshore development, feature teams, continuous integration, and technical excellence. It is a practical handbook for organizations seeking to implement LeSS and other large-scale agile approaches.
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**Summary:**
Bas Vodde is best known as co-creator of the LeSS framework and co-author (with Craig Larman) of three major books on scaling agile and lean development. His work emphasizes minimalism, empiricism, and organizational design for large-scale product development. He has also contributed technical articles, open-source tools, and extensive guidance through the LeSS community and Odd-e.
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## Books
### 1. **Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS**
**Authors:** Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
**Publisher:** Addison-Wesley Professional
**Publication Date:** 2016
**ISBN:** 978-0321985712
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### 2. **Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum**
**Authors:** Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
**Publisher:** Addison-Wesley Professional
**Publication Date:** 2008
**ISBN:** 978-0321480965
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### 3. **Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum**
**Authors:** Craig Larman, Bas Vodde
**Publisher:** Addison-Wesley Professional
**Publication Date:** 2010
**ISBN:** 978-0321636409
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## Articles and Technical Contributions
### 1. **LeSS Framework Articles and Guides**
**Platform:** less.works
**Description:**
Bas Vodde is a principal author of the official LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework guides and articles available at less.works. These resources detail the LeSS principles, rules, guides, and experiments, offering practical advice for organizations and teams implementing LeSS at scale. The guides are continually updated based on real-world experiences and community feedback.
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### 2. **Technical Contributions**
**Description:**
Bas Vodde is also a contributor to CppUTest (a C/C++ unit testing framework) and the Osaka test automation framework. His technical writings and open-source contributions focus on test-driven development, continuous integration, and improving software quality in large, embedded, and distributed systems.
### 3.AgileContracts.org. “Agile Contracts.” https://agilecontracts.org
Description:
AgileContracts.org is a comprehensive resource dedicated to agile contracting, supporting organizations in evolving their contracting models to better align with agile software development. The site features the Agile Contracts Primer, an in-depth article based on the contracts chapter from Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. The primer explains why traditional contracts can hinder agile projects and offers guidance on structuring contracts to promote collaboration, mitigate risk, and facilitate iterative and incremental delivery. The site also provides translations, references, and practical advice for both legal professionals and agile practitioners, helping bridge the gap between legal frameworks and agile values and practices.
