Jeff Sutherland

Sutherland is a graduate of the United States Military Academy.{{Cite web|title=West Point Association of Graduates|url=https://www.westpointaog.org/page.aspx?pid=3390&reid=ZLM3UPVokha1FV2ta6KQ/g==&bbsys=0&bbrt=0|access-date=2020-08-26|website=www.westpointaog.org}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1967 he deployed with the United States Air Force to Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base to fly reconnaissance flights in a RF-4C Phantom.{{cite book |last1=Sutherland |first1=Jeff |last2=Sutherland |first2=J. J. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RoPZCwAAQBAJ | title=Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time | publisher=Crown Publishing Group | year=2014 | isbn=9780385346467}}

After returning from the Vietnam war, Sutherland earned a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University. He then became a professor of mathematics at the United States Air Force Academy. Sutherland earned a doctorate in biometrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.{{cite thesis |type=PhD Thesis |last=Sutherland |first=Jeffrey V. |date=1980 |title=The Multihit Model of Carcinogenesis and Its Application to Human Colon Cancer Incidence Data |publisher=Department of Biometrics, University of Colorado |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/a689bd7a914d7ab734768ed9b3b37c50/1}}

Jointly with Yosi Amram, Sutherland developed NewsPage at Individual.com, one of the first publishers of news on the internet. The news engine used a lexical parsing system.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RpYX01XVMksC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT169 | title=Agile Project Management with Scrum | publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc | author=Schwaber, Ken | year=2009 | isbn=9780735637900}}

Scrum is a framework for enabling business agility at scale across an entire organization. A meeting which was influenced by the Agile Manifesto.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXDLlAgETvMC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT38 | title=Business-Driven IT-Wide Agile (Scrum) and Kanban (Lean) Implementation: An Action Guide for Business and IT Leaders | publisher=CRC Press | author=Pham, Andrew Thu | year=2012 | isbn=9781466578562}} Sutherland is quoted as saying the "systems development process is an unpredictable and complicated process that can only roughly be described as an overall progression".{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf5MlsaAmNgC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PA32 | title=History of Computers, Electronic Commerce|author1-link=Marvin Victor Zelkowitz| author=Zelkowitz, Marvin | journal=Advances in Computers: Emerging Technologies | year=2008 | volume=73 | pages=32| isbn=9780080880310 }}

The scrum process was developed by Sutherland, John Scumniotales and Jeff McKenna while at Easel Corporation and influenced by agile software development. The principle was based on a 1986 article by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in the Harvard Business Review,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GTZT7YoHikC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PA85 | title=Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries | publisher=Random House | author=Sims, Peter | year=2011 | pages=85 | isbn=9781409038030}} and incorporates practices from a draft study published in Dr. Dobb's Journal.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lpvY36MPMUwC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT29 | title=Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Coplien, James O. | year=2011 | isbn=9780470970133}} It involves 30-day cycles of plan, build and monitor sprints. The name Scrum was chosen in reference to the rugby scrummage,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggczS_F5RMMC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PA112 | title=The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software | publisher=CRC Press | author=Armour, Phillip G. | year=2004 | pages=112 | isbn=9780203505649}} as the system involves "a cross-functional team" who "huddle together to create a prioritized list".{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3BRlpamcfUC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PA133 | title=Change Your Dam Thinking | publisher=Bound Publishing | author=McQuarrie, Gray | year=2010 | pages=133 | isbn=9780986723308}} Scrum has been used by several major corporations.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbRo4kYnTnMC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT374 | title=Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum | publisher=Pearson Education | author=Larman, Craig | year=2008 | isbn=9780321617149}} Sutherland has claimed that distributed teams coached to use the system can make large productivity increases against the industry average.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IminAWAfdEC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT85 | title=A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum | publisher=Pearson Education | author=Woodward, Elizabeth | year=2010 | isbn=9780137061365}}

Scrum involves a cross-functional team creating a list to work on. The team consists of three specific roles, the Product Owner, the Developers and the Scrum Master. The team then works through three phases: a pre-sprint planning, the sprint and then a post-sprint meeting.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ov9o5m3pR6EC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PA54 | title=Effects of Agile Methods on Website Quality for Electronic Commerce | author=Rico, David F. | year=2007 | publisher=University of Maryland University College | isbn=9780549764946}} The group has daily meetings and keeps a Product Backlog.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzU8aw4HiAsC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=RA1-PT373 | title=Agility and Discipline Made Easy: Practices from OpenUP and RUP | publisher=Pearson Education | author=Kroll, Per | year=2006 | isbn=9780132702485}} In contributing to the book The Secrets of Happy Families, Sutherland modified the Agile approach to family interactions.{{cite news | url=http://theweek.com/article/index/252829/the-secrets-of-happy-families | title=The secrets of happy families | work=The Week | date=9 December 2013 | access-date=18 December 2013 | author=Parrish, Shane}}

Sutherland has been quoted as saying the three distinguishing factors between Scrum teams and normal teams are self-management, continuity of team membership, and dedication to a single project.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vx88auzEFscC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT165 | title=The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook | publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd | author=Viscardi, Stacia | year=2013 | isbn=9781849688031}} Clarification of user needs is an essential component. Sutherland said no coding should occur while user needs were in doubt, and is quoted as saying "It is better for the developers to be surfing than writing code that won't be needed".{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8lm9_k_fvfkC&q=%22Jeff+Sutherland%22&pg=PT121 | title=Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility | publisher=Pearson Education |author1=Alan Shalloway |author2=Guy Beaver |author3=James R. Trott | year=2009 | isbn=9780321647993}} Sutherland has also been quoted as saying that Scrum should run with software architecture.

Sutherland is the founder and principal consultant at Scrum, Inc in Boston, Massachusetts, currently led by his son, JJ Sutherland as the CEO.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scruminc.com/about-us/|title=About Us|website=Scrum Inc|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-22}} Additionally, he was appointed a senior advisor to OpenView Venture Partners 2007 for a short period in that year.{{Cite news|url=https://openviewpartners.com/scrum-creator-sutherland-joins-openview/|title=Scrum Creator Sutherland Joins OpenView {{!}} OpenView Venture Partners|date=2007-08-09|work=OpenView|access-date=2018-03-11|language=en-US}}

• {{cite book |last1=Sutherland |first1=Jeff |last2=Schwaber |first2=Ken | title=Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust |date=May 1, 2012 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1118206669 |pages=216 |edition=1st}}
• {{cite book |last1=Sutherland |first1=Jeff |last2=Sutherland |first2=J.J. |title=Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time |date=September 30, 2014 |publisher=Currency |isbn=9780385346450 |pages=256 |edition=1st}}
• {{cite book |last1=Sutherland |first1=Jeff |last2=Coplien |first2=James |title=A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game |date=August 2019 |publisher=Pragmatic Programmers |isbn=978-1118206669 |pages=572 |edition=1st}}

• {{cite book |last1=Schwaber |first1=Ken |last2=Sutherland |first2=Jeff |last3=Patel |first3=D. |last4=Casanave |first4=C. |title=Business Object Design and Implementation |chapter=SCRUM Development Process |date=1997 |pages=117–134 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4471-0947-1_11 |isbn=978-3-540-76096-2 |chapter-url=http://www.jeffsutherland.org/oopsla/schwapub.pdf |access-date=12 September 2020}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Rigby |first1=Darrell |last2=Sutherland |first2=Jeff |title=Agile at Scale |journal=Harvard Business Review |date=May 2018 |url=https://hbr.org/2018/05/agile-at-scale |access-date=12 September 2020}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Rigby |first1=Darrell |last2=Sutherland |first2=Jeff |last3=Takeuchi |first3=Hirotaka |title=The Secret History of Agile Innovation |journal=Harvard Business Review |date=April 2016 |url=https://hbr.org/2016/04/the-secret-history-of-agile-innovation}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Rigby |first1=Darrell |last2=Sutherland |first2=Jeff |last3=Takeuchi |first3=Hirotaka |title=Embracing Agile |journal=Harvard Business Review |date=May 2016 |url=https://hbr.org/2016/05/embracing-agile}}

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• [http://jeffsutherland.com/ Jeff Sutherland Personal Home Page]
• [http://www.openviewpartners.com OpenView Venture Partners]

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