Saturday, January 19, 2008

Contact Information

Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D.
CTO & Worldwide Scrum Consulting Practice Manager
PatientKeeper, Inc.
One Newton Place
275 Washington Street – 2nd Floor
Newton, MA 02458

Senior Advisor, OpenView Venture Partners
303 Congress Street, Seventh floor
Boston, MA 02210
+1 617 478-7500 for venture fund questions

Certified Scrum Trainer and Co-Creator of the Scrum Development Process
See: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Roots-of-Scrum

+1 617 606-3652 Main number and voice mail
+1 617 812 8527 Fax reaches me anywhere
+31 66 4399093 Dutch mobile
+45 60 67 87 90 Danish mobile (617-987-0403 from U.S.)
+46 709 827833 Swedish mobile
+47 90 62 84 63 Norwegian mobile
+37 2532 03761 Explorer mobile (Italy, France, Dubai, Russia, UK, ...)
jeff.sutherland@computer.org
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2008 Certified ScrumMaster Training
See http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum for courses in the U.S., Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Aarhus, and Amsterdam


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Friday, January 18, 2008

Abstract

Jeff Sutherland started his career as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force where he achieved Top Gun status in 1967 and flew 100 combat missions over North Vietnam. His last two tours of duty were at Stanford University where he received a M.S. in Statistics and the United States Air Force Academy where he taught Mathematics, Statistics, and Probability. After 11 years as a pilot, he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School where he received his Doctoral degree. As Asst. Prof.of Radiology, Biometrics, and Preventive Medicine he co-founded the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research under the sponsorship of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling and for eight years was the Principle Investigator of a multimillion dollar National Cancer Center research grant that ran all IT programs for the Colorado Regional Cancer Center. This included data collection on all cancer patients in Colorado and integration with a national registry, clinical trials,epidemiological studies, and research on super computer mathematical models of carcinogenesis.

In 1983 he joined a banking company that serviced 150 banks throughout North America where he was VP of Advanced Systems and General Manager of their ATM Business Unit. He has been VP of Engineering and CTO of nine software companies. In the first four companies he prototyped Scrum and in the fifth company created Scrum as we know it today. His last four companies have been totally Scrum where teams have consistently demonstrated hyperproductivity. In 2001 he was a Signatory of the Agile Manifesto. His current company, PatientKeeper, performs at 10 times the speed of their outsourcing partner and is the first company to use Scrum to achieve a hyperproductive revenue state, quadrupling their revenue in 2007. He has lots of war stories to share with companies all over the world after 15 years of doing nothing but Scrum.

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Platform Development for Mobile/Wireless Applications

PatientKeeper, Inc. 2000-Present
Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Sutherland's contribution to the component technology industry includes development of several software platform innovations. In 2002, Gartner Group identified his latest work with PatientKeeper on a multichannel application gateway (MAG) as the leading mobile technology platform for the healthcare industry.



Jeff led the team that deployed the first mobile applications on an open technology platform in large healthcare institutions. PatientKeeper applications provide a universal user interface for medical records on Palm or PocketPC devices and integrate/interoperate with backend legacy systems. With over 50,000 downloads, the PatientKeeper Personal application is the most widely used mobile patient record application in healthcare. The mobile platform SDK supports interoperability between multiple independently authored applications on a single device. The platform server techology supports multiple device types, personalization of mobile data for applications independently authored by third party developers, automated administration and update of mobile devices, web reporting and auditing of mobile transactions, a comprehensive single signon security infrastructure, and enterprise integration with hundreds of legacy healthcare software and hardware products.

Agile development began at PatientKeeper prior to its first major round of venture funding (now over $70M). PatientKeeper uses an advanced form of Scrum (Type C or Continuous Scrum) where multiple sprints are pipelined through a single team and every sprint delivers production code to multiple customers. Project management is totally automated. Administrative tasks are reduced to 10 minutes per day for the Project Leader and 60 seconds a day for developers. Over 45 releases of the full PatientKeeper product line were shipped in 2004.

As a Certified ScrumMaster and Inventor of the Scrum Agile Development Process, Dr. Sutherland is spending 30% of his time sharing best business practices with the software industry by supporting the Scrum Alliance and consulting on Scrum training at Microsoft, Yahoo, Ariba, Adobe, and other companies who want to capture Extreme Business Value.