News from around Mountain Goat Software and from around the world of Scrum and agile development.
I’ve learned a lot about the challenges people face over the years across varying organizations when it comes to agile development and Scrum. But I’m always looking to help people solve their toughest or most nagging problems – and sometimes it’s easier to find out what those are just by asking.
So today, I’m asking you to take a moment to fill in a one-question survey for…
I'm going to be speaking at Agile 2013 in Nashville this summer. My 75-minute session will be part of an Agile Boot Camp track that is targeted mostly at people new to agile to help them understand the basic concepts, terminology, methodologies, and practices of agile development. My session will be
We’ve decided to run a spring sale of our popular eLearning course: Agile Estimating and Planning. Until May 19, you can access the entire course , worth 4PDUs, for half off. Some of the things we cover include:
Here’s a sneak…
As part of the recent Scrum Gathering in Atlanta, the Scrum Alliance Board of Directors held an all-day, in-person meeting. I want to share with you the outcome of one of the key topics on our agenda, which was reviewing the current vision for the organization and considering any changes to it. Coming into that meeting, the vision was to provide meaningful certification, offer valuable memberships, expand Scrum's presence, and do so with operational excellence. These four keys to the direction of the organization had been established at a similar board meeting in September 2010.
Agile projects are successful three times more often than non-agile projects, according to the 2011 CHAOS report from the Standish Group. The report goes so far as to say, "The agile process is the universal remedy for software development project failure. Software applications developed through the agile process have three times the success rate of the traditional waterfall…
I'm in the midst of reading Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic. I'm a big fan of his earlier, Bridging the Communication Gap book so I've been anxious to read his new one. I'll post a full review when I'm done with it.
However, I wanted to share a sample chapter of the book here.
Mike Cohn, author and scrum agile expert, will bring his Agile software development training classes, Certified ScrumMaster, Succeeding with Agile, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Agile User Stories and Agile Estimating and Planning training to parts of the United States and Europe.
Layfayette, CO November 29, 2010 --
ScrumMaster and agile expert Mike Cohn has announced…
Mountain Goat Software and Mike Cohn, author and Agile Scrum expert, have announced the release of four free tools used in agile and scrum projects for planning and prioritizing.
Layfayette, CO November 6, 2010 -- Mountain Goat Software, an agile training and scrum certification company, has released five free agile and scrum tools ScrumMasters and Agile teams can use…
I've been invited by the PMI Agile Community of Practice to present a webinar. It will be held on February 15, 2011 at noon Eastern time and will last one hour. The topic is
By now you may have heard that I am the new chairman of the board for the Scrum Alliance. Esther Derby, Ken Schwaber and I cofounded the Scrum Alliance a handful of years ago and it's grown tremendously since then. We have over 100,000 members, which is pretty amazing when I think back to the days when the people who knew about Scrum would have fit in a conference room.…
