Mountain Goat Software is an Agile Methodology Training and Project Management Consulting Company founded in 1993.
We offer public and private Agile Methodology Courses—including Scrum certification and ScrumMaster classes—to help you succeed with your software development projects. We also offer agile methodology consulting, coaching and mentoring.
Our focus is on helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance software development organizations.
With more fifteen years of experience with Scrum, we know how to get you and your projects Succeeding With Agile®. It’s often not enough just to learn about Scrum—you need to experience it. There’s no better way to do this than with an experienced agile methodology trainer and coach from Mountain Goat Software at your side.
Training
Through Certified ScrumMaster, Succeeding with Agile, Agile Estimating and Planning, Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and other courses, Mountain Goat Software helps companies adopt, implement and improve these techniques through public courses around the world as well as onsite courses at your company. Please click here to read What our Customers Are Saying about our classes and about trainer/company founder Mike Cohn.
Onsite Coaching
Mountain Goat classes are an excellent way to quickly learn about specific aspects of agile methodologies for software development, however many principles and practices are best learned by augmenting training with coaching or mentoring.
An ideal scenario is a one- or two-day training followed by a day of hands-on work with a team.
For example: a training course on user stories followed by a day of working with your team as they write user stories for their project. Or, why not follow an Agile Estimating & Planning course with a day of hands-on help as your team puts its new skills to use? A popular follow-on to our Certified ScrumMaster Training is a day spent helping one or more teams plan their initial sprints. Periodic check-ins are also extremely useful. Scheduling a couple of days of coaching a month or two after a training course is a great way to ensure that key concepts have found their way into daily usefulness.
About Us
Having run his first Scrum project in 1995, Mountain Goat Software founder Mike Cohn has more than a dozen years of experience with Scrum and agile methodologies, which is significantly more experience than most other training or consulting companies offer. Mike is also the author of a number of excellent books, articles, and a popular blog. He was also a founder of two non-profit organizations dedicated to helping agile teams succeed—the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance. To learn more about Mike and Mountain Goat, please visit Why Use Mountain Goat.
