Ken Schwaber (born 1945 in Wheaton,

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) is a software developer, product manager and industry consultant. He worked with

Jeff Sutherland Jeff Sutherland (born June 20, 1941) is one of the creators of the Scrum, a framework for product management. Together with Ken Schwaber, he presented Scrum at OOPSLA'95. Sutherland contributed to the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Along ...

to formulate the initial versions of the

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framework and to present Scrum as a formal process at

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'95. Schwaber and Sutherland are two of the 17 initial signatories of the

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. They are co-authors of the ''Scrum Guide''. Schwaber runs Scrum.org, which provides Scrum resources, training, assessments, and certifications for Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers, Scrum Product Owners, and organizations using Scrum. Schwaber is one of the leaders of the

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movement. He is a founder of the

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, and he is responsible for founding the Scrum Alliance and creating the Certified Scrum Master programs and its derivatives. He resigned from the Scrum Alliance in 2009 after a disagreement with the board regarding assessments, certification, and a developer program. He subsequently founded Scrum.org. At Scrum.org, he led the development of new courseware, assessments, and partnerships to improve the quality and effectiveness of Scrum. He has published and updated Scrum with Jeff Sutherland, and wrote "Software in Thirty Days" also with Sutherland.

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Ken Schwaber's Blog: Telling It Like It Is

Scrum.org
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