Mike Cohn is one of the contributors to the

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software development method. He is one of the founders of the Scrum Alliance.

Early life and education

Born in

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

Career

Cohn began his career in the early 1980s as a programmer in APL and

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before moving on to

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and

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and running development groups. 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. 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 a proponent of stand-up meeting, particularly emphasizing actual

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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.

Publications

* Java Developer's Reference (1996) * Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5: (Sams Developers Guide) (1996) * Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (1997) * Web Programming With Visual J++ (1997) * * *

References

External links

Cohn's Homepage
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