The following is a list of Dr. Jeff Sutherland’s published academic papers, journal articles, books, and letters. It includes his cancer research in the 1970s, his papers on database architecture in the 80s, and his numerous papers on Scrum and scaling Scrum over the last three decades.
Much of Scrum and Scrum@Scale’s structure was influenced by his experience with and lessons learned studying and researching biological systems, dynamic systems, and object oriented architectures. Jeff’s body of work is vast and demonstrates his commitment to empirical process control and sharing his findings so that they may benefit the maximum number of people. Jeff’s work continues to guide and inspire us.