What are Scrum & Agile?

Agile is an umbrella term used to describe a general approach to software development. Though there are many agile incarnations, all agile processes, including Scrum emphasize teamwork, frequent deliveries of working software, close customer collaboration, and the ability to respond quickly to change.

About Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small startups, and everything in between. Having started with Scrum in 1994, Mike has the experience, expertise and depth of knowledge to help your organization create and sustain high-performance teams. He is the author of three agile books, numerous articles and a very popular blog. Explore the site and get to know Mike. Then, if you think he might be right for your organization, give us a call. We’d love to help you get started or get better with agile.

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Which course is right for me?

Through its Certified ScrumMaster, agile estimating and planning, user story, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and other agile project management courses, Mountain Goat Software founder Mike Cohn helps companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance development organizations.

After the recent Certified ScrumMaster course that Mike ran for us in the UK, everyone went back to their teams completely re-energized and determined to make Scrum work. Mike is a passionate and inspirational teacher with a wealth of experience from working with a wide variety of companies.
Harvey Wheaton
Senior Development Director, Electronic Arts

Mike’s classes at Yahoo! have been incredibly useful. I recommend him to anyone who is serious about implementing Agile in their organization.
Gabrielle Benefield
Director of Agile Development, Yahoo!

Your ScrumMaster class was the best project management class I’ve ever experienced. The concepts were thoughtfully presented, and clearly delivered. While many training classes equate to just “reading the book,” yours was entertaining, succinct, and provided mountains of usable takeaway.
Deke Waters
Day 1 Studios

You were a great instructor and you absolutely, forever altered my perspective on project management process.
Ray Hutchins, President
SimGame Exchange

I found this course of great value, bringing all the Scrum principles into a useable process.
George Goodyer
Verisign

This class has definitely exceeded my expectations and pointed out tons of areas our team can do better.
Aida Cutuk
Intuit

Mike gave a Scrum training for Visual Studio Team System team leaders and managers. It was fantastic. I’ve heard lots of praise since. Mike was direct, authoritative, tactful and hilarious. Even for teams where we have a lot of Scrum and XP in usage, Mike’s training energized us all. The next day we talked a lot about how we could improve. I’d highly recommend his training to any team.
Stephanie Saad
Microsoft

Mike brings great energy to every class that I have seen him teach. He’s great in front of a large audience or consulting with a few folks. He was incredibly helpful as we rolled out agile at Salesforce. He has great experience and knowledge of a broad set of agile methods that result in very practical advice for software teams.
Chris Fry, Senior Director
Salesforce.com

Thanks again for the excellent training. It was the most effective training I have ever had. I went into the training with significant reservations about Scrum, thinking mostly about how it doesn’t work in my organization. I left fully converted and excited about how I could introduce positive change in the organization, and have already changed our stories and approach to allow for much more rapid development. I’m in love with it, and it was directly due to your training. I am encouraging everyone who will listen to take training specifically from you. Thanks!
Jason Deal
Disney