Mike Cohn
Mike Cohn is the founder of
Mountain Goat
Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm.
Mike specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile
processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance
development organizations. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile
Software Development and Agile Estimating and Planning, as well as books on Java
and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously
been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to
Fortune 40. He has also written articles for Better Software, Cutter IT Journal,
IEEE Computer, Software Test and Quality Engineering, Agile Times, and the C++
Users' Journal. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, is a
founding member of the AgileAlliance, and serves on its board of directors. He
is a Certified ScrumMaster and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the
ACM.He can be reached at