Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Inc.

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time”! Jeff Sutherland experience as a fighter pilot flying over North Vietnam and a medical research scientist studying complex adaptive systems motivated him to invent a new way of teamwork for finishing projects early with higher value based on Takeuchi and Nonaka’s observation of lean product development at Honda, Toyota, and other lean companies. He teamed up with Ken Schwaber to formalize Scrum in 1995 and write the Agile Manifesto in 2001 with other thought leaders. Jeff describes how Scrum derives from lean product development at Toyota and what was added to lean to get software teams agile.

Biography

Jeff Sutherland is the inventor of Scrum. He developed the first Scrum in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. Currently he is CEO of Scrum, Inc., Chair of the Scrum Foundation, and Senior Advisor and Agile Coach to OpenView Venture Partners. As VP of Engineering and CTO/CEO of eleven software companies he prototyped Scrum in four companies and his last seven companies have been Scrum companies.

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