Why Train With Mountain Goat Software?

We help organizations and individuals improve productivity, quality, and collaboration on their teams. Our training sparks change by engaging team members to transform the way they work, and giving them the tools needed to make that transformation stick. Watch the video above to learn more about how we do this.

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Hi! I'm Mike Cohn

For over twenty years I've been building high-performing software development teams and organizations through the use of agile and Scrum. I've worked with startups and some of the largest organizations in the world.

My in-person training, coaching, and online video courses work together to give you everything you need to deliver the right product on time every time.

Mike Cohn

Books by Mike Cohn

Books by Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn Signature Series

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Whether you're introducing agile or Scrum to your organization or want to make good teams great, we can help you succeed with agile.

Our Instructors

Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.

Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn

With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way. 

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Brian Milner

Brian Milner

Brian is the Senior Vice President of Training and Coaching with Mountain Goat Software and is a Certified Scrum Trainer. Starting out as a developer, Brian worked up through management layers, then transitioned to Scrum Master and then Coach. His practical experience in both waterfall and agile organizations helps him clarify what works and what doesn’t, plus he has many years’ experience helping teams transition to agile. 

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Lucy O’Keefe

Lucy O’Keefe

Lucy has been a developer, Product Owner and Scrum Master in many scrum teams during her 28 years of IT experience. This brings a valuable perspective to the Teaching Assistant role as she helps students have a great training experience.

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Kert Peterson

Kert Peterson

Since apprenticing with Ken Schwaber and being designated a Certified Scrum Trainer in 2004, Kert has been at the forefront of Agile training and transformation for a wide range of organizations, including Rockwell Collins, Mission Health, Capital One, and Fidelity Investments. 

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Julie Chickering

Julie Chickering

Julie believes that Lean and agile practices are packed with potential—to enable positive culture change, business agility, and breakthrough results. Julie has helped organizations of all sizes in various industries successfully execute Lean and agile transformations. Julie brings personal, real-world experience to every training and coaching engagement, working with people at all levels—executive, program, and team—to adopt and roll out realistic agile strategies organization-wide.

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Mitch Lacey

Mitch Lacey

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer and the author of the popular book, The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond. Mitch has been an agile practitioner since 2006, and has more than 20 years of experience managing projects. He has worked with Microsoft, Oracle, Bio-Rad, Costco, DemonWare, Morningstar, SAP, and more.

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Scott Dunn

Scott Dunn

Scott Dunn has more than 20 years of experience in management, project management (PMP), engagement management, and software development (MCSD). He’s worked in a variety of areas and industries from social media to mortgage banking, healthcare, defense, e-commerce, plus state and local government sectors.

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Lance Dacy

Lance Dacy

As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Lance has trained and coached teams through many successful Scrum implementations since 2011, from Fortune 20 companies to small start-ups. Lance is also experienced in showing agile coaches and managers how to help cross functional, self-organizing teams deliver high value for customers as early as possible by using Scrum. 

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Team Home

Team Home is a collaboration platform that we designed for our courses. It is optimized for live, online training. Participants benefit by collaborating in ways beyond what is possible with generic whiteboard software such as Mural or Miro. Instructors can observe activity across all rooms, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of exercise debriefs.

 
 
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Seth Webster

There are a ton of articles and videos on-line on the subject of Scrum (many of them written by Mike Cohn and the team at Mountain Goat) and this course does a great job of distilling the lake of information into a manageable and consumable course. Mike Cohn and the other instructors are invested in the success of Scrum at your organization and how much they care really shines through. I have several years of experience working in a Scrum environment and I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to learn new ways to really take their team to the next level.

Drew Grubb

Got a recommendation from a colleague to enroll and was very surprised in the beginning as the pre-course 4 hours videos were so in-depth I couldn't understand what are we going to do on the course! :D But then thorough team exercises, ability to chat with Lance and have coaching on real life cases we face - made it all make sense! Incredible, recommended to my other colleagues

Zhanna L

Mountain Goat is always the first place I go when looking for information on Agile processes and ideas. The classes are excellent and help build a strong foundation for people to understand Agile processes and techniques.

Robert D

Additional Resources

We’re passionate about helping as many people as possible get results from agile, which is why we publish regular educational content on our YouTube channel and Podcast. We also have GoatBot - the only AI tool designed to answer questions based on our entire catalog of training materials.