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Mike Cohn is one of the contributors to the Scrum software development method.^[1] He is one of the founders of the Scrum Alliance^[2]

Cohn began his career in the early 1980s as a Programmer in APL and BASIC before moving on to C++ and Java and running development groups.^[3]

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Cohn is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development and Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum, as well as books on Java and C++ programming.^[4] Cohn was a keynote speaker on ADAPTing to Agile for Continued Success at the Agile 2010 Presented by the Agile Alliance.^[5] In 2012, Cohn was named #1 in The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People.^[6]

Cohn is a proponent of stand-up meeting, particularly emphasizing actual standing during them.^[7] Teams are encouraged to come up with their own rules for improving these meetings, for example fining people who are late to them. A 2011 survey of tech employees from around the world found that 78% held daily stand-up-meetings.^[8]

Publications[edit]

• Java Developer's Reference (1996)
• Database Developer's Guide With Borland C++5: (Sams Developers Guide) (1996)
• Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (1997)
• Web Programming With Visual J++ (1997)
• Mike Cohn (2004). User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley Professional.
• Mike Cohn (2005). Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall PTR.
• Mike Cohn (2009). Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum. Addison-Wesley Professional.

References[edit]

1. ^Denning, Steve (2012-03-01). 'The Power of Scrum'. Forbes.
2. ^'Mike Cohn'. ScrumAlliance. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
3. ^'Video'. InformIT. Archived from the original on 2012-01-14.
4. ^'Mike Cohn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle'. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
5. ^'Keynotes'. Agile2010. Archived from the original on 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2017-03-12.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
6. ^Dolman, Paul (2012-04-01). 'The top 20 most influential Agile people'. Value, Flow, Quality. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
7. ^'Hate those endless meetings? Try standing up'. Marketplace.org. 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
8. ^'No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs'. The Wall Street Journal. 2012-02-02.

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