As the founder of Mountain Goat Software, Mike Cohn specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques to build extremely high-performance development organizations. Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1994, and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike was previously a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startups to the Fortune 40. Today, Mike is one of the industry’s most sought-after Certified Scrum Trainers. He is the author of three books on Scrum and agile, and the founder of the agile online training website, FrontRowAgile.com. He is also a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance, is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and corporate events, and a thought leader at his popular blog on Scrum and agile.