Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn is one of the contributors to the invention of the Scrum software development methodology.[1] He is one of the founders of the Scrum Alliance [2] He is the owner of Mountain Goat Software, a company that provides training on Scrum and Agile software development techniques.
He began his career in the early 1980s as a Programmer in APL and BASIC before moving on to C++ and 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.
Cohn is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development and Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum, as well as books on Java and C++ programming[4] and 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 was a Keynote Speaker on ADAPTing to Agile for Continued Success at the Agile 2010 Presented by the Agile Alliance.[5] In 2012, Cohn was named #1 in The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People.[6]
Cohn is an avid proponent of stand-up meeting, particularly emphasizing actual standing during them.[7] Teams are encouraged to come up with their own rules for improving these meetings, for example fining people who are late to them. A 2011 survey of tech employees from around the world found that 78% held daily stand-up-meetings.[8]
Cohn is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance, Inc. and on its Board of Directors.[9] 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 helped popularize Planning poker, a version of which his company provides as a free online planning tool called PlanningPoker.com.
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.[10]
Publications
- Mike Cohn (2004). User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Mike Cohn (2005). Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall PTR.
- Mike Cohn (2009). Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum. Addison-Wesley Professional.
- 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)
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
References
- ↑ Denning, Steve (2012-03-01). "The Power of Scrum". Forbes.
- ↑ ScrumAlliance. "ScrumAlliance". ScrumAlliance. 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://agile2010.org/keynotes.html
- ↑ http://www.valueflowquality.com/the-top-20-most-influential-agile-people/
- ↑ http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/hate-those-endless-meetings-try-standing
- ↑ "No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs". The Wall Street Journal. 2012-02-02.
- ↑ http://www.scrumalliance.org/welcome_to_scrum_alliance
- ↑ http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/company/clients
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