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Mike Cohn
Mountain Goat Software Owner
個人資料
性別Male
出生 (1962-08-25) 1962年8月25日62歲)
籍貫USA,California
配偶Laura Cohn
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Mike Cohn(1962August 25) is the co-founder[1]and former Chairman of the Board of Directors[2] of the Scrum Alliance, and president of Mountain Goat Software[1]. Hailed by the media as the top influential Agile person[3], he specializes in helping organizations develop high-performance Agile and Scrum teams. Cohn was born in Anaheim, California and currently lives in Colorado, USA. He ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since. He has helped with the adoption of Scrum processes at numerous companies worldwide, including Google, Microsoft, Nielsen Media Research, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Yahoo, etc.

Biography

Born in Anaheim, California, USA in 1962, Mike Cohn received his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Idaho in northern Idaho, USA. Having a research interest in Agile project management, he specializes in communicating needs and achieving Agile project goals through user stories[4].

Mike Cohn began his career in the early 1980s as a Programmer using C and C++. He ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since. With over 30 years of experience in a variety of environments, Cohn became an expert in helping companies adopt and improve their use of Agile processes and techniques to build extremely high-performance development organizations. He is a Scrum trainer for Mountain Goat Software.[1]

In 2004, Mike Cohn wrote a book named User Stories Applied that provides a front-to-back blueprint for writing user stories and using them for the planning, management and testing of the development lifecycle[5]. In 2005, Mike Cohn published another book, Agile Estimating and Planning, which details how to employ Agile planning in a succinct, practical, and easy-to-follow manner[6]. In 2009, Mike Cohn published his third book titled Succeeding With Agile: Software Development Using Scrum to provide his experiences working with many different organizations and practical approaches in the adoption of Agile methods[7].

Mike Cohn, in his role at Scrum Alliance, he is an avid proponent of stand-up meetings[1] to keep the team focused, usually in a small niche in the hallway or office, because people tend to procrastinate when sitting down. Getting together for a very focused and concentrated discussion takes only a short time, and the team can get back to work immediately following the discussion without occupying too much time.

Mike Cohn encourages teams to make their own rules to help them realize if they are straying from whatever they want to do. Most teams that have tried this approach find it satisfying. They』ll have a rubber rat or two around where they’re meeting, and in case of a stray, somebody will hold up a rat to indicate to their coworkers they’re going down a rat hole and should get back to the meeting topic and focus on the discussion[1].


History

  • Founder of Mountain Goat Software[1]
  • Certifications in CSM, CST, CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO[1]
  • Have trained over 15,000 Developers, Scrum Masters, and Project Managers[8]
  • Founding member of the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance[9]
  • Attended the first Certified ScrumMaster course with Ken Schwaber in May 2003[8]
  • Vice President of Development at four different companies that have successfully adopted Agile concepts and strategies[10]
  • Editor of the Addison-Wesley Signature Series: Mike Cohn[10]
  • Keynote speaker at the Agile 2010 Conference on adapting to Agile for sustained success[10]
  • Ranked first among the Top 20 Most Influential Agile People in 2012.[10]

Literary work

  • 《Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5》,Columnist, Sams, May 1996
  • 《Java Developer's Reference》,Columnist, Sams, November 1996
  • 《Web Programming With Visual J++》,Columnist, Sams, February 1997
  • 《Teach Yourself Visual Cafe 2 in 21 Days》,Columnist, Sams, September 1997
  • 《User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development》,Addison-Wesley Professional,2004
  • 《Agile Estimating and Planning》,Pearson,2005
  • 《Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum》,Addison-Wesley Professional,2009[11]

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