Mike Cohn was recently interviewed by Matthew Heusser for InformIT. You can read the interview on their website.
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Mike Cohn Interviewed for InformIT
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
I was recently interviewed by Matthew Heusser for InformIT. You can read the interview on their website.
Mike Cohn will be presenting at the Stockholm Scrum User Group on October 22nd
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Mike Cohn will be presenting “Scaling Scrum and Working with Distributed Teams” at the Stockholm Scrum User’s Group meeting on October 22nd.
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Mike Cohn will be presenting at the Oslo XP Meetup on October 15th
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Mike Cohn will be presenting “Scaling Agile and Working with Distributed Teams” at the October 15th Oslo XP Meetup.
Please click here for more information.
Mike Cohn speaking at Agile Development Practices in Orlando, Florida
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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He will be presenting the following half-day tutorials:
- Getting Agile with Scrum
- ADAPTing to Agile: A Guide to Transitioning
- Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
- Agile Estimating and Planning
- Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements
Two Chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning Avialable
Monday, September 21st, 2009
My publisher, Addison-Wesley, has just made two chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning available for free. Check out Chapter 1, The Purpose of Planning, and Chapter 3, An Agile Approach.
Free chapters from Succeeding with Agile
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
My publisher just informed me that they’ve made two chapters available from my upcoming book, Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum.
You can get the free chapters from the InformIT website. Find the picture of the book on the bottom right and download the chapters from there.
Lots of other interesting agile books are listed there as well with free PDF downloads. But, hurry up and read those other books so you can read mine when it comes out on November 7. 
Mountain Goat Software Client Ultimate Software Use of Scrum Leads to Being Named Best Place to Work in US
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Ultimate Software has been named the best medium-sized company to work for in the United States. In 2005, Mike Cohn helped Ultimate begin their adoption of Scrum and Scrum was credited as one of the reasons why Ultimate is such a great place to work. You can read more about why Ultimate Software is such a great place to work at
the Great Place to Work Institute website and can read more about
Ultimate Software on their website.
Jurgen Appelo’s “Big Agile Practices Survey”
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Prolific and popular blogger Jurgen Appelo is conducting a survey about agile practices. The survey focuses on which practices are in use and even which you don’t consider to be agile practices.
There are six parts to the survey but you can take all or part. Please help everyone out by helping us all understand which practices are in use and to what extent.
The survey is available on his blog.
Draft Chapters of New Upcoming Books Available
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
As you may know, I am editing a series of books for Addison-Wesley, my long-time publisher. Authors in the series are all going to be sharing early drafts of chapters and soliciting feedback. Two authors are far enough along that they have made initial chapters available.
Roman Pichler is writing about the product owner role in his book, Agile Product Management: Turning Ideas into Winning Products with Scrum. Two of his chapters are available now.
Clinton Keith is writing Agile Game Development with Scrum, which builds on his experience as a game studio CTO and fifteen years in the industry. He has one draft chapter available.
Already available is Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.
I strongly encourage checking out each of these books.
