Jeff started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In the same year, Sutherland provided Kent Beck all background information on the creation of Scrum. XP engineering practices then evolved along with SCRUM and the two leading Agile development processes work well together. Scrum and XP are the most widely used Agile processes worldwide and their creators are authors of the Agile Manifesto.
Jeff is CTO and Worldwide Scrum Consulting Practice Manager for PatientKeeper. His current company started Scrum seven years ago as a startup and involves the whole company in the Scrum process including senior management. He leads many of his Scrum Certification courses at PatientKeeper where the Chief Product Owner reviews the PatientKeeper Product Backlog and explains how to run a MetaScrum of stakeholders every week and how to ship dozens of production releases of software every year.

Jeff has personally led deployment of Scrum development teams in five companies as CTO/VP of Engineering and works with dozens of companies worldwide on deploying Scrum as a consultant. He recently became Senior Advisor to a venture capital group working closely with portfolio companies to assure good Scrum execution. Future investment in the software industry may depend on the quality of your Scrum implementation and Jeff will describe his group's investment criteria at Camp Scrum.