Listen "AGL 082: Mike Cohn – Agile Leadership"
Episode Synopsis
About Mike
Mike Cohn is the author of three of best-selling books on agile (User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile). He is one of the world’s most sought-after and respected Certified Scrum Trainers, a keynote speaker, and an in-demand coach to companies throughout the United States and around the world.
As the founder of Mountain Goat Software, Mike specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high-performance development organizations. His weekly email tips on succeeding with agile are read by over 100,000 people.
With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. He is a co-founder of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance, the home of the Agile Manifesto. He can be reached at [email protected]
Today We Talked About
Early years of Mike Cohn
Management
Communication of Agile Project Management
Rubber Duck Debugging
Asking Questions
Leading people to the solution instead telling them the solution
Implementing Scrum
Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions
Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance
Do it by the book
Essential Scrum
Content Creation
Entrepreneurship
Be more open to experiments that may not work out
Trust
Trip-wires
Ask More Questions than you make Statements
Connect with Mike
Twitter
Blog
Website
LinkedIn
I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to iTunes and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word. Thanks again!
Mike Cohn is the author of three of best-selling books on agile (User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile). He is one of the world’s most sought-after and respected Certified Scrum Trainers, a keynote speaker, and an in-demand coach to companies throughout the United States and around the world.
As the founder of Mountain Goat Software, Mike specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high-performance development organizations. His weekly email tips on succeeding with agile are read by over 100,000 people.
With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. He is a co-founder of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance, the home of the Agile Manifesto. He can be reached at [email protected]
Today We Talked About
Early years of Mike Cohn
Management
Communication of Agile Project Management
Rubber Duck Debugging
Asking Questions
Leading people to the solution instead telling them the solution
Implementing Scrum
Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions
Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance
Do it by the book
Essential Scrum
Content Creation
Entrepreneurship
Be more open to experiments that may not work out
Trust
Trip-wires
Ask More Questions than you make Statements
Connect with Mike
Blog
Website
I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to iTunes and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word. Thanks again!
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