Scaling Agile to Work with a Distributed Team

Published January 18th, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This video looks at how agile can be scaled to work on any multi–team project. Even a project with two teams will benefit from learning how to proactively manage team dependencies, conduct iteration planning for multiple teams, cultivate communities of practice, and coordinating work. It looks also at overcoming the unique challenges facing distributed teams. You will learn to decide how to distribute a team, how to create coherence among team members, the importance of getting together and when are the most important times to use the travel budget, changes to what the team documents, and how to handle meetings when spread across timezones.

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Scrum Gathering 2008 – Mike Cohn

Published November 4th, 2009 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

An interview with Mountain Goat Software’s Mike Cohn from the Spring 2008 Scrum Gathering in Chicago.

Mike Cohn talks with Robert Dempsey About Agile and Scrum

Published May 22nd, 2009 Under Agile, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Last week Robert Dempsey caught up with Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied, at his Agile Estimating and Planning class here in Orlando, Florida. Mike took a few minutes to discuss his current books, his upcoming books, how he got started in Agile, and the bumps in the road of Agile adoption that teams encounter.

Bay XP Meeting Part 2: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn

Published March 2nd, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Part 2 of the March 20, 2007 meeting featuring Mike Cohn, Agile Estimation.

Bay XP Meeting Part 1: Agile Estimation, Mike Cohn

Published March 2nd, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

The March 20, 2007 Meeting. Featuring Mike Cohn, Agile Estimation

Prioritizing Your Product Backlog

Published September 16th, 2008 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Choosing the right features can make the difference between the success and failure of a software product. Mike Cohn presented ‘Prioritizing your Project Backlog’ at Agile 2008 on how a project backlog should be organized and prioritized and non-financial techniques for prioritization such as kano analysis, theme screening/scoring, relative weighting and analytic hierarchy process.

Mike Cohn is the Author of ‘Agile Estimating and Planning’ and ‘User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development’, the founder of Mountain Goat Software — a process and project management consultancy with international training in agile methods and scrum — a blogger, and a founding member of the Agile Alliance.

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Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning

Published August 26th, 2008 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

In this presentation filmed during Agile 2007, Mike Cohn talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging in a previously tightly controlled environment.

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. He is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and serves on the board of directors for the Scrum Alliance. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.

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Agile Software Development: Scrum Certification

Published February 29th, 2008 Under Agile, Scrum | Leave a Comment

“Agile Estimating and Planning” author Mike Cohn discusses SCRUM certification and shares his thoughts on whether or not Scrum Master Certification is Good for the Agile Community.

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Agile Development Teams: Scope and Scale with Mike Cohn

Published February 1st, 2008 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

“Agile Estimating and Planning” author, and Agile Alliance co-founder, Mike Cohn, provides detailed, proven techniques for estimating and planning any Agile project. Agile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, and many more. It will be an indispensable resource for every development manager, team leader, and team member.

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Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork

A Governance Model for Incremental, Concurrent, or Agile Projects

Managing the Pipeline

Selecting the Right Iteration Length for Your Software Development Process