Mike Cohn
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Mike Cohn is the owner of Mountain Goat Software and is recognized as one of the contributors to the invention of Scrum [1] He is one of the founders of the Scrum Alliance [2] and is a Certified Scrum Trainer. He is a trainer on Scrum and agile software process techniques and helped popularize Planning poker which he provides as a free online planning tool.
He began his career in the early 1980s as a Programmer in APL Basic before moving on to C++ and C++Java and running development groups. [3] Cohn ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since.
He has served as Vice President of Development at four different companies that successfully employed agile concepts and strategies and been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from start-up to Fortune 40.
As a noted author of Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software and Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum, as well as books on Java and C++ programming, [4] Cohn has written articles for Better Software, IEEE Computer, Software Test and Quality Engineering, Agile Times, Cutter IT Journal, and the C++ Users' Journal. He is also the editor of the Addison-Wesley Mike Cohn Signature Series of books.
Cohn is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance, Inc. and on its Board of Directors.[5] As a Certified Scrum Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. As a trainer he has helped popularize Planning poker, which he provides as a free online planning tool.
His work as a consultant includes environments from aerospace to banking to video game development with clients such as Electronic Arts, Qualcomm, and Capital One and many other notable organizations.[6]
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[edit] Publications
- Mike Cohn (2004). User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley Professional. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books/2-user-stories-applied-for-agile-software-development.
- Mike Cohn (2005). Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall PTR. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books/1-agile-estimating-and-planning.
- Mike Cohn (2009). Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum. Addison-Wesley Professional. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books/7-succeeding-with-agile-software-development-using-scrum.
- Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (1997)
- Web Programming With Visual J++ (1997)
- Java Developer's Reference (1996)
- Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5: (Sams Developers Guide) (1996)
[edit] Online Presentations
- Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning
- Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
- ADAPTing to Agile for Continued Success
- Bay XP Meeting Part 1: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn
- Bay XP Meeting Part 2: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/03/01/the-power-of-scrum/
- ^ ScrumAlliance. "ScrumAlliance". ScrumAlliance. http://www.scrumalliance.org/. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ^ http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=c00adc43-cb24-455d-9a51-09adfe5ab1b7
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Mike-Cohn/e/B001H6MN56
- ^ http://www.scrumalliance.org/welcome_to_scrum_alliance
- ^ http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/company/clients
[edit] External links
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