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Video Podcast of Mike Cohn Interviewed by Dave Prior

During the 2008 Scrum Gathering, Mike Cohn was interviewed by Dave Prior of the PMI IT & Telecom Sig. The interview is available as a video podcast.

Published on May 03, 2008

Certified Product Owner - interview with Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn was recently interviewed by Artem Marchenko.

Published on March 20, 2008

Mike Cohn Interviewed by Citerus

Mike Cohn was recently interviewed by Mikael Boman of Citerus, a leading Swedish development company. The interview is available on their website. Mike will be in Stockholm from May 26-29 offering various agile classes.

Published on February 12, 2008

Patterns of Agile Adoption

There are many ways to transition to an agile process. Choosing the approach that is most likely to work best for your organization can be critical to a smooth transition. In Mike Cohn's article, Patterns of Agile Adoption, he has identified six core patterns that teams use to initiate the transition to agile.

Published on January 16, 2008

Mike Cohn Interviewed by PM Boulevard

Mike Cohn was recently interviewed for PM Boulevard, a website dedicated to expert insights for business results. Click here to read the article.

Published on January 14, 2008

Envisage Technologies is Hiring

Envisage Technologies a small company in the homeland defense and first responder space is growing at breakneck speed. They are located in Bloomington, Indiana and use a home-rolled agile environment with developer pairing, TDD, NUnit & FitNesse. They are looking for a product manager and several developers. If you're interested, contact their VP of Operations, Michelle Cole at michelle.cole@envisagenow.com or (812) 330-7102.

Published on December 21, 2007

Mike Cohn Video Podcast - Effective User Stories Applied

Published on October 19, 2007

Salesforce.com's Three-Month Transition to Agile

Mountain Goat Software client Salesforce.com successfully completed one of the quickest, large-scale, big-bang agile transitions ever, involving over 200 developers. At the Agile 2007 conference they shared this presentation on how they did it.

Published on October 11, 2007

ComputerWorld Coverage of IBM Agile Conference

Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software spoke at an agile conference for IBM employees in May 2007. A reporter from ComputerWorld must have been attended because some quotes from his session there have ended up in the Australian edition of ComputerWorld (see page two).

Published on August 07, 2007

Farm Credit Services of America Achieves Tremendous Results With Agile

Mountain Goat Software client Farm Credit Services of America has been doing Scrum for two years now and with great results. They are profiled in this May 2007 article from CIO magazine. Farm Credit reports having used Scrum to roll out “five key products with phenomenal results.” They have also dropped the number of post-rollout defects discovered from 100 down to none or one. In addition to onsite coaching, Mountain Goat provided training to Farm Credit on Scrum, Agile Estimating and Planning, and User Stories. Congratulations to Farm Credit Services of America and all of their agile employees for achieving such outstanding results.

Published on August 07, 2007

Mike Cohn video podcast available from OnSoftware and InformIT

Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software was interviewed recently by Ted Neward. The interview was recorded by InformIT as part of their onSoftware series of audio and video podcasts. You can subscribe to the onSoftware podcasts and get Ted's interview of Mike from iTunes. The onSoftware podcasts have also featured interviews with Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Josh Bloch, and Brian Goetz.

Published on August 07, 2007

Agile Is Listed CNN’s List of 50 Who Matter Now

CNN has a list of 50 “people, products, trends, and ideas that are transforming the world of business.” Agile Software Development is #18 on the list. See more on the CNN/Money magazine site.

Published on June 27, 2007

Google / bayXP Presentation on YouTube

Mike Cohn's March 20, 2007 presentation at Google for bayXP is now available on YouTube. The title of the talk was Planning and Tracking on Agile Projects. The presentation is available in two parts: part one and part two. The presentation slides are also available.

Published on April 30, 2007

SDWest and BayXP/Google Presentations Added

Presentations from Software Development West 2007 and the March 20, 2007 bayXP meeting at Google have been added:

Published on March 21, 2007

PMI Orange County Presentation by Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn presented a half-day tutorial on agile software development at the monthly Advanced Topic Seminar of the Orange, County, CA chapter of the Project Management Institute. The session was reviewed in their monthly magazine.

Published on March 19, 2007

Game Developers Conference 2007 Presentation

On March 5, 2007 Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat co-presented a tutorial on applying agile software development to video game development. Other presenters were from High Moon Studios (creators of the Darkwatch game) and from Epic (creators of the Unreal Engine).

You can download the slides if you are interested in agile for vide game development.

Published on March 19, 2007

Podcast On Agile Estimating and Planning

Dina Henry-Scott of ControllingChaos.com recently interviewed Mike Cohn on the subject of agile estimating and planning You can hear her podcast of that discussion.

Published on March 12, 2007

Slides for Agile Austin Presentation Available

Mike Cohn spoke at the Agile Austin meeting on February 6, 2007 on the subject of Scrum for Video Game Development. The talk was based on his work helping some of the leading video game development studios and publishers adopt an agile approach. The slides are available.

Published on February 10, 2007

Yahoo! Is Looking for Agile Coaches

Yahoo!, a Mountain Goat client, is looking for agile coaches in Sunnyvale and Santa Monica, CA. They have over fifty agile teams globally and are looking for coaches to extend agile even further through the company.

You can read a detailed job description and apply at http://tinyurl.com/yrwhdm

Published on February 09, 2007

New Version of Redistributable Intro to Scrum Slides

The popular redistributable, Introduction to Scrum presentation has been completely updated. The new version features all new graphics and is greatly improved since the original was released on this site in 2002. This presentation is made available in PowerPoint and Keynote (Mac) formats in English. It has also been translated to French, German (old version still), and Portuguese (old version still). Use this presentation as the basis for introducing Scrum to others.

Published on May 26, 2006

Mountain Goat Client High Moon Studios Wins Award for Agile Use

Mountain Goat Software client High Moon Studios has been recognized as one of IT Week Magazine's Top 50 Technology Innovators of 2005. See the full article for details.

Published on December 15, 2005