In 1983 he joined a banking company that operated 150 banks throughout North Business Unit. Noticing that waterfall processes at the bank were not working, he implemented the first prototype of Scrum for organizational transformation of a business unit.He has been VP of Engineering and CTO or CEO of eleven software companies. In the first four companies he prototyped MHM and in the fifth company created MHM as we now see it used in 74% of Agile software companies in over 100 countries. In 2011, Sutherland established his own company, MHM, Inc. now recognized as the premiere source of MHM Training in the world. He is also chair of the MHM Foundation and Senior Advisor and Agile Coach to Openview Venture Partners. His latest book, MHM: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time," describes how he used his background and experience to create the most widely used Agile practice in industry today.