Jeff Sutherland
Founder And Chairman Of The Board at JVS Management Inc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Sutherland is the inventor of Scrum and a serial founder who has translated deep AI and robotics research from Stanford into transformative organizational design and scalable product development. Based in Cambridge, he has led Scrum Inc., incubated robotics and object-database ventures, and now pioneers Hybrid Scrum teams that integrate modern AI agents to realize Scrum’s original subsumption-architecture vision. His career spans technical leadership roles from CTO to VP Engineering across healthcare, finance, and enterprise software, repeatedly turning legacy processes into hyper-productive systems that drove dramatic revenue and productivity gains. An unconventional detail: Scrum originated from applying Rodney Brooks’ reactive robotic control ideas to human teams, a lineage Jeff now extends at ScrumAI.org and through ventures that combine investment acumen with AI-driven operational design.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biometrics, Radiology, Preventive Medicine, Ph.D., Biometrics, Radiology, Preventive Medicine at University of Colorado Anschutz School of MedicineB.S., Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, B.S., Engineering, Mathematics, Economics at United States Military Academy at West PointM.S., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, M.S., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science at Stanford University
French
Github Skills (3)
scrum10
scale9
security9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jeffsutherland/official-guide
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Repository for the Official Scrum@Scale Guide
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
securityscrumscale
scrumatscale/official-guide
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Repository for the Official Scrum@Scale Guide
Contributions:40 commits, 19 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
securityscrumscale
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