Mike Cohn

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Mike Cohn
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Born (1962-08-25) August 25, 1962 (age 62)
Education
Known forFounder of Scrum Alliance
SpouseLaura Cohn

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]

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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]

Cohn created the SPIDR technique for user story splitting. [12]

Publications

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. 1 2 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. Cohn, Mike (2025-05-21). "SPIDR: Five Simple but Powerful Ways to Split User Stories". Mountain Goat Software. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  13. Morgan, Bryan; Morrison, Michael; Nygard, Michael T.; Joshi, Dan; Trinko, Tom; Cohn, Mike (1996-11-01). Java Developer's Reference. SAMS. ISBN   1575211297.
  14. Hill, Kristy; Rutten, Jay; Gee, Mark; Moran, Jim; Cohn, Mike (1996-05-01). Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5. SAMS. ISBN   0672308002.
  15. Cohn, Mike (1997-09-01). Teach Yourself Visual Cafe 2 in 21 Days. SAMS. ISBN   1575213036.
  16. Cohn, Mike; Rutten, Jay; Jory, James (1997-02-01). Web Programming With Visual J++. SAMS. ISBN   1575211742.
  17. Cohn, Mike (2004-03-01). User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley. ISBN   0321205685.
  18. Cohn, Mike (2009-10-26). Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN   978-0321579362.