This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Co-writer of the Agile Manifesto, Jeff Sutherland is one of the world’s leading experts of organizational management. He’ll explain how to be agile, not just in software development but in every business to disrupt the field.
A former US Air Force “Top Gun,” Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of the SCRUM process. This methodology, developed in 1993 and formalized in 1995 with Ken Schwaber, has since been adopted by the vast majority of software development companies around the world.
Jeff is a leading expert on how the framework has evolved to meet the needs of today’s business. Realizing its benefits are not limited to software development, he has adapted this strategy to several other industries including: finance, healthcare and telecom. His processes are now widely used for managing challenging projects and hyperproductive development teams.
As the CEO of Scrum Inc. and the Senior Advisor and Agile Coach to OpenView Venture Partners, Jeff shares best practices with organisations around the globe.
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He looks like Bernie Sanders.
A very good presentation tbh.
The dude literally admits that we live in a fuckery system that doesn't work at all, we just pretend it does, with all this indoctrination programming since birth. He also points out to abandon all the so called professional specialists because they just create clutter in a space of self creativity, not to mention the biggest message -> step out the box and stop being a sheeple.
Superb grandkids story teller, no doubt :)
worst Ted talk
Probably the single worst talk I think I have ever heard. What a rambling bunch of drivel. I have absolutely no idea what he was on about. "I was in the military, i flew a plane, i worked at a bank, I ate some sushi" blah blah blah. This is why no one wants to listen to old people – they use too many words to say very little.
Came here to improve my efficiency and time management. Got this shit,where he just brags about what he did and not told us a thing about the title.
Seriously, another one of those guys, riding on sheer BS after The war. And some here (very glad they are fewer in number) actually buy it.
Isn't he great everyone? I bet this guy has love bites in his shaving mirror. What's he talking about – landing the plane?
I will save you time….It starts at 15:48….your welcome :)
In summary, life is like landing an aeroplane. You have to keep repeating (or drill) the landing exercise and re-adjusting until you get it right as you do also living your life.
The highlight of his talk was Vietnam war experience. He survived the missile attack by making his flight path maneuvering unpredictable for the missile when entering Vietnam. Only 50% of the pilots survived and came back.
He advocates for the management giving initial instructions, then stepping back from managing and allowing the teams to come up with solutions.
There is some merit with his talk.
Jeff Sutherland always ends up wasting my time
I watched the video before reading the comments, and I have to agree with what others have said – I've watched hundreds of TED talks now, and this was the most oddly unfocussed talk I've seen. He spends the whole time talking about the great benefits of doing 'this', whilst barely mentioning what 'this' actually is. He seems to mumble 'visualise your work' a couple of times, and that's it. I'm sure he's a very clever and successful man, but based on this talk I wouldn't ask him to troubleshoot at my company.
Did he just tried to convince us for close to 16 mins that he knew how to be efficient without telling us how?
Papa Pope would be so proud of this work :)
Lacks content; no indication of why and when agile works and doesn’t work. Like all Agile advocates he seems unaware of what is lost during the process and oblivious to what could have been gained for the future. However, his analogy between machine learning and team organization has help crystallize my own understanding of best practices.
This guy sure loves to brag but has he hasn't taught us anything. What a waste of time.
What does this have to do with the title?
So can someone find a point in any of this?
Embrace the general idea/s, the details can be ironed out later
Probably because TED is not about marketing your product/service, Sutherland did not mention SCRUM, the project management system that was developed by Americans while helping rebuild Toyota after the war. I had read dozens and dozens of different self-help, improvement, etc type of books and I will say that SCRUM is one of the more important concepts that everyone should learn. All the criticism in the comments is funny because he really did more in his life than anyone here and even if he delivered the secret to life in a 10 min lecture, you probably wouldn't apply it anyway.
so what?!
I wish he'd talk about SCRUM not just how he came to develop it.
Play this vid at 2x speed in the background while finishing a bunch of quick emails.
Change the velocity of the video
What I understood was that productivity = self learning through teamwork and having mental agility. He probably didn't have enough teamwork putting the speech together… Or maybe he was just nervous. We'll never know.