Jeff Sutherland (born June 20, 1941) is one of the creators of Scrum, a framework for product management.

[3] After returning from the Vietnam war, Sutherland earned a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University.

The principle was based on a 1986 article by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in the Harvard Business Review,[8] and incorporates practices from a draft study published in Dr. Dobb's Journal.

[10] The name Scrum was chosen in reference to the rugby scrummage,[10] as the system involves "a cross-functional team" who "huddle together to create a prioritized list".

[12] Sutherland has claimed that distributed teams coached to use the system can make large productivity increases against the industry average.

[19] Additionally, he was appointed a senior advisor to OpenView Venture Partners 2007 for a short period in that year.