Mike Cohn Explained

Mike Cohn should not be confused with Mike Kohn.

Mike Cohn
Birth Place:Anaheim, California, U.S.
Spouse:Laura Cohn
Birth Date: August 25, 1962
Known For:Founder of Scrum Alliance

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]

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. 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.[6] Cohn was a keynote speaker on ADAPTing to Agile for Continued Success at the Agile 2010 Presented by the Agile Alliance.[7] In 2012, Cohn was named #1 in The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People.[8]

Cohn is a proponent of stand-up meeting, particularly emphasizing actual standing during them.[9] 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.[10]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The Power of Scrum. Forbes . Steve . Denning . 2012-03-01.
  2. Web site: Mike Cohn. ScrumAlliance. 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 . 41823572.
  4. Web site: Mike Cohn. ScrumAlliance.
  5. Web site: Video . InformIT . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120114113857/http://www.informit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=c00adc43-cb24-455d-9a51-09adfe5ab1b7 . 2012-01-14 .
  6. Web site: Mike Cohn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle . Amazon . 2017-03-12.
  7. Web site: Keynotes . 2010-07-28 . Agile2010 . 2017-03-12 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20100728074317/http://www.agile2010.org/keynotes.html .
  8. Web site: Dolman . Paul . The top 20 most influential Agile people . Value, Flow, Quality . 2012-04-01 . 2017-03-12.
  9. Web site: 2012-02-20. Hate those endless meetings? Try standing up. Marketplace.org. 2017-03-12.
  10. News: 2012-02-02. No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs. The Wall Street Journal.
  11. Book: Morgan. Bryan. Java Developer's Reference. Morrison. Michael. Nygard. Michael T.. Joshi. Dan. Trinko. Tom. Cohn. Mike. 1996-11-01. SAMS. 1575211297 .
  12. Book: Hill. Kristy. Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5. Rutten. Jay. Gee. Mark. Moran. Jim. Cohn. Mike. 1996-05-01. SAMS. 0672308002 .
  13. Book: Cohn, Mike. Teach Yourself Visual Cafe 2 in 21 Days. 1997-09-01. SAMS. 1575213036 .
  14. Book: Cohn. Mike. Web Programming With Visual J++. Rutten. Jay. Jory. James. 1997-02-01. SAMS. 1575211742 .
  15. Book: Cohn, Mike. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. 2004-03-01. Addison-Wesley. 0321205685 .
  16. Book: Cohn, Mike. Agile Estimating and Planning. 2005-11-01. Prentice Hall. 0131479415 .
  17. Book: Cohn, Mike. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum. 2009-10-26. Addison-Wesley Professional. 978-0321579362 .

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