Jeff Sutherland Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

In 2006, as Senior Advisor to OpenView Venture Partners, we implemented Scrum everywhere in the venture group and in all our companies with the goal to double investment returns with Scrum compared to other VC firms. This has been so successful that I have started my own investment firm as many of our stocks have exploded during COVID lockdown. Properly.

Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

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.

Boston, MA, US

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 $400M portfolios of funded companies and all of them use Agile processes. Jeff has worked with many of the companies training and consulting on the Scrum development process and.

The Scrum Foundation (formerly Training Institute) is the premier global provider of 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.

Waltham, MA, US

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Denver, Colorado, US

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.

Ph.D., Biometrics, Radiology, Preventive Medicine

M.S., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science

B.S., Engineering, Mathematics, Economics