Career
He is one of the founders of the Scrum Alliance 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. 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 and articles for Better Software, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer, Software Test and Quality Engineering, Agile Times, Cutter Information Technology 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. In 2012, Cohn was named #1 in The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People.
Cohn is an avid proponent of stand-up meeting, particularly emphasizing actual standing during them.
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 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.
Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning
Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
ADAPTing to Agile for Continued Success
Bay XP Meeting Participant 1: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn
Bay XP Meeting Participant 2: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn.
