Mike Cohn

Not to be confused with Mike Kohn.

Mike Cohn (born August 25, 1962) is one of the contributors to the Scrum software development method.^[1] He is one of the founders of the Scrum Alliance.^[2]

Mike Cohn
Born	(1962-08-25) August 25, 1962 (age 62) Anaheim, California, U.S.
Education	Chapman University (BA) Claremont Graduate University (MA) University of Idaho (MS)
Known for	Founder of Scrum Alliance
Spouse	Laura Cohn

Early life and education

Born in Anaheim, California, U.S. in 1962, Mike Cohn received his master's degree in computer science from the University of Idaho in northern Idaho.^[3] Having a research interest in Agile project management, he specializes in communicating needs and achieving Agile project goals through user stories.^[4]

Career

Cohn 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.^[5]

Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm.^[6] He 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.^[7] Cohn was a keynote speaker on ADAPTing to Agile for Continued Success at the Agile 2010 Presented by the Agile Alliance.^[8] In 2012, Cohn was named #1 in The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People.^[9]

Cohn is a proponent of stand-up meeting, particularly emphasizing actual standing during them.^[10] 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.^[11]

Publications

• Java Developer's Reference (1996)^[12]
• Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5: (Sams Developers Guide) (1996)^[13]
• Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (1997)^[14]
• Web Programming With Visual J++ (1997)^[15]
• Mike Cohn (2004). User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley Professional.^[16]
• Mike Cohn (2005). Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall PTR.^[6]
• Mike Cohn (2009). Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum. Addison-Wesley Professional.^[17]

References

1. Denning, Steve (2012-03-01). "The Power of Scrum". Forbes.
2. "Mike Cohn". ScrumAlliance. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
3. Cohn, Michael W. (1994). Empirical evaluation of a proposed set of complexity metrics for identifying defect prone classes in object-oriented programs (MS thesis). University of Idaho. OCLC 41823572.
4. "Mike Cohn". ScrumAlliance.
5. "Video". InformIT. Archived from the original on 2012-01-14.
6. Cohn, Mike (2005-11-01). Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131479415.
7. "Mike Cohn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Amazon. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
8. "Keynotes". Agile2010. Archived from the original on 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2017-03-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
9. Dolman, Paul (2012-04-01). "The top 20 most influential Agile people". Value, Flow, Quality. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
10. "Hate those endless meetings? Try standing up". Marketplace.org. 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
11. "No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs". The Wall Street Journal. 2012-02-02.
12. Morgan, Bryan; Morrison, Michael; Nygard, Michael T.; Joshi, Dan; Trinko, Tom; Cohn, Mike (1996-11-01). Java Developer's Reference. SAMS. ISBN 1575211297.
13. Hill, Kristy; Rutten, Jay; Gee, Mark; Moran, Jim; Cohn, Mike (1996-05-01). Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5. SAMS. ISBN 0672308002.
14. Cohn, Mike (1997-09-01). Teach Yourself Visual Cafe 2 in 21 Days. SAMS. ISBN 1575213036.
15. Cohn, Mike; Rutten, Jay; Jory, James (1997-02-01). Web Programming With Visual J++. SAMS. ISBN 1575211742.
16. Cohn, Mike (2004-03-01). User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0321205685.
17. Cohn, Mike (2009-10-26). Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0321579362.

External links

• Cohn's Homepage