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Ken Schwaber

Chairman, Founder and Co-Creator of Scrum
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Ken Schwaber

Ken Schwaber co-developed the Scrum framework with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s to help organizations struggling with complex development projects. One of the signatories to the Agile Manifesto in 2001, he subsequently founded the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. He founded Scrum.org in 2009 in order to execute on his mission of improving the profession of software development. A 30-year veteran of the software development industry (from bottle washer to boss), he has written four books about Scrum: Agile Software Development with ScrumAgile Project Management with ScrumThe Enterprise and Scrum, and Software in 30 Days. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.