Explore popular quotes and sayings by a software developer Jeff Sutherland.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Jeff Sutherland is one of the creators of the Scrum, a framework for product management. Together with Ken Schwaber, he presented Scrum at OOPSLA'95. Sutherland contributed to the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Along with Ken Schwaber, he wrote and maintains The Scrum Guide, which contains the official definition of the framework.
The fact is, when you look at the best teams—like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka wrote their paper, or the ones at Google or Salesforce.com or Amazon today—there isn’t this separation of roles.
Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum.
Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.