Jeff Sutherland Quotes & Sayings

Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum. — Jeff Sutherland

Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong - it does. — Jeff Sutherland

People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy. — Jeff Sutherland

The Scrum Master, the person in charge of running the process, asks each team member three questions: 1. What did you do yesterday to help the team finish the Sprint? 2. What will you do today to help the team finish the Sprint? 3. What obstacles are getting in the team's way? That's it. That's the whole meeting. — Jeff Sutherland

It's the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior. — Jeff Sutherland

No Heroics. If you need a hero to get things done, you have a problem. Heroic effort should be viewed as a failure of planning. — Jeff Sutherland

Agile Manifesto." It declared the following values: people over processes; products that actually work over documenting what that product is supposed to do; collaborating with customers over negotiating with them; and responding to change over following a plan. Scrum is the framework I built to put those values into practice. There is no methodology. — Jeff Sutherland

Greatness can't be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us. — Jeff Sutherland