Founder and Chairman at Scrum, Inc.

Scrum, Inc.

Scrum, Inc. was founded by Jeff to continue and extend thought leadership on Scrum by coaching, training, and transforming companies, moving Scrum beyond it's initial IT focus to cover all business domains, and publishing new books and web content to help set a high standard for Scrum implementations. Many companies working with Scrum, Inc. have tripled both both productivity and revenue in the first year of Agile deployment. This requires aggressive commitment to performance improvement by management and software development teams. Scrum Inc. enjoys working most with companies that want to go from good to great whether they are starting out with Scrum or have been doing Scrum for many years.
    
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Dr. Sutherland has trained the OpenView Venture Partners team in Agile processes and they will be the first venture group to run all operations with Scrum. The group has a multiple $200M portfolios of funded companies and all of them use Agile processes. Jeff is working with each of the companies training and consulting on the Scrum development process and using Scrum as an agent of organizational transformation driving the Scrum process up through senior management and into the Board room.
    
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      OpenView Venture Partners
  

The Scrum Foundation (formerly Training Institute) is the premier global provider of certified Scrum training and consulting. Founded by four of the leading Scrum experts in the US, Europe, and Asia, STI provides a complete solution for companies seeking high-impact results from Scrum and Agile development. Our team includes the leaders of some of the largest enterprise Scrum implementations to date, totaling thousands of employees worldwide. The STI founders are some of the most experienced Scrum practitioners anywhere, and worked with many of the world’s best-known companies on their Scrum and Agile implementations, companies ranging from Google and Microsoft to IBM, Oracle, HP, among many others. The STI has a full-time presence by its founders in the US, Europe, and Asia, and is the largest provider of certified Scrum training in India. We have extensive experience using Scrum successfully for offshore and multi-location development, including in a services environment and at CMMI Level 5 organizations.
    
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Scrum Foundation

New venture in healthcare mobile/wireless computing. Design and deploy platform architecture to support financial and clinical applications on all major mobile device types and the web with backend integration to all heathcare vendor systems and homegrown clinical data repositories via web services, HL7, or direct SQL binding. Used the Scrum Agile Development Process (Type C Scrum) to achieve industry leadership for the PatientKeeper Platform (GartnerGroup, 2002).Hired by founders in 2000 with zero revenue. The Scrum implementation achieved 50M in revenue by 2007.
    
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PatientKeeper

Introduced Scrum to a nationwide team of over 500 developers with a $47M budget. Launched the first web-enabled patient information system (Outreach) and the first physician's practice management system on the web (IDXSite); a high-volume transaction processing application. OutReach provides physicians with web-browser Internet access to important patient financial and clinical information. IDXsite provides complete billing, accounts receivable, scheduling, and manage care claims processing for physician groups.IDX was acquired by General Electric in 2005 to become GE Healthcare.
    
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Co-founded Individual in 1988 to bring out the first personalized newspage. In 1996, I returned to introduce Scrum when the company went publicThe Individual experience demonstrated that Scrum is extremely well suited to internet development, even when using older technologies (no Java). A highly productive Scrum implementation   delivered two new products in three months.Individual was acquired by NewsEdge and is now owned by Office.com. Personal NewsPage is still alive at individual.com on the web.This is one of the many technologies I created together with many great developers that lives on in company after company - the Matisse object database, Personal NewsPage, Object Studio and its derivative works, the IDX web desktop now GE Healthcare's front end, PatientKeeper's mobile technology used by Cerner, GE, and others, and the most popular of all, the Scrum development process.
    
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In 1995, VMARK acquired Easel Corporation. Introduced Ken Schwaber to the first Scrum development team and we agreed that he would roll out the Scrum process industrywide. Helped Ken write the first paper on Scrum which was published at OOPSLA'95.Worked worldwide with VMARK subsidiaries in the U.S., Europe, and Australia to evangelize object-oriented development and Scrum. Ran the first senior management team Scrum to roll out new internet products at VMARK.VMARK changed its name to Ascential Software and was acquired by IBM in 1995.
    
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This is the company where Scrum was born. I was hired into Easel Corporation as Chief Engineer for developing a new product, Object Studio, the first object-oriented analysis and design tool to implement round trip engineering. I led the team that invented Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and used it to deliver two major releases of Object Studio in 1994. In 1995, provided Kent Beck background information on Scrum which helped him with the invention of eXtreme Programming. In 1995, Easel Corporation was acquired by VMARK. It was at VMARK that I introduce Ken Schwaber to the first Scrum team and he agreed to expand Scrum outside of Easel into the software industry worldwide.
    
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Developed and deployed the Matisse Object Database, still considered the fastest and most reliable database in existence in $10B nuclear reprocessing plants all over the world. Captures all sensor readings in real-time in these plants, runs lights out without downtime for years at a time, and is 15 times faster than the Sun native file system. Helped bring in venture funding for Object Databases which created the Matisse Corporation, now located in Mountain View, CA.
    
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Brought the french GBASE Lisp Object Database to the U.S. and deployed it in advanced technology groups at Boeing, Titan, TASC, American Airlines, etc. As a Graphael consultant, responsible for developing next generation architecture for Boeing Computer Services based on object technology.This company was restructured as Object Databases and is now Matisse Corporation, a venture backed firm in Mountain View, CA.
    
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Responsible for all product development including a new banking system. When I consulted for Bank of America some years later they had allocated $350 for such system. Today it would probably cost closer to $1B. Used traditional project management techniques which inevitably led to late delivery, poor quality, and user dissatisfaction. I was brought in to fix this. It taught me a lesson about traditional project management that led to Scrum.
    
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Responsible for Automated Teller System business unit that supported 150 banks in North America. Project leader for Mid-Continent investment in Saddlebrook which led to taking over engineering there.


Imaging research and supervision of Ph.D. program. Principle Investigator of National Cancer Institute grants for Colorado Regional Cancer Center. Worked out the current model of tumor formation with leading researchers worldwide. Co-Founder of the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research under the sponsorship of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling.
    
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      University of Colorado
  

Doctoral Degree in Biometrics and Radiology

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Masters in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science

Stanford University is one of the world's leading research universities. Stanford is known for its entrepreneurial character, drawn from the legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford, and its relationship to Silicon Valley. Research and teaching stress interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Areas of excellence range from the humanities to social sciences to engineering and the sciences. Stanford is located in California's Bay Area, one of the most intellectually dynamic and culturally diverse areas of the nation.

Founder and Chairman at Scrum, Inc.

Scrum, Inc.

Founder and Chairman

Scrum, Inc.

CEO

OpenView Venture Partners

Senior Advisor

Scrum Foundation

Chairman

PatientKeeper

CTO & Worldwide Scrum Consulting Practice Manager

IDX Systems

CTO & SVP Engineering and Product Development

Individual Inc.

VP Engineering

VMARK Corp.

VP Object Technology

Easel Corporation

VP Object Technology

Object Databases

President

Graphael, Inc.

VP Engineering

Saddlebrook Corp.

VP Engineering

Mid-Continent Computer Services

VP Advanced Systems

University of Colorado

Asst. Prof. Radiology, Biometrics, Preventive Medicine

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Biometrics, Radiology, Preventive Medicine

Ph.D.

Stanford University

Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science

M.S.

United States Military Academy at West Point

Engineering, Mathematics, Economics

B.S.