Mike Cohn

Mike is a Certified Scrum Trainer who was a co-founder of the Scrum Alliance and who served as its Chairman of the Board. He is the president of Mountain Goat Software and specializes in helping organizations develop high-performing agile and Scrum teams. His complete schedule of public courses is available.

Mike has over thirty years of experience in a variety of environments and specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high-performance development organizations. He has previously served as a technology executive in organizations of various sizes, from startups to Fortune 40 companies. Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since. He has helped with the adoption of such processes at numerous companies, including Bioware, Capital One, Electronic Arts, Google, High Moon Studios, Intuit, JDA Software, Lexis Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Nielsen Media Research, Pearson, Phillips Electronics, Sabre, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Turner Broadcasting, Ultimate Software, and Yahoo.

Mike is the author of key scrum and agile books including Succeeding With Agile, User Stories Applied, and Agile Estimating and Planning.

He is often asked to speak as an expert on Scrum and agile topics and has been interviewed for the following media outlets and publications: 

• The Wall Street Journal
• National Public Radio Marketplace show
• The Best Agile Articles of 2018
• The Agile Pubcast ep 109
• InformIT
• ProjectManagement.com
• Reimagining Agility - The Economist 2021
• Mindtools.com

Mike also offers video training courses with more than 7,000 licenses sold for Agile Estimating and Planning, Scrum Repair Guide, and Better User Stories.