Ken Schwaber is recognized as one of the co-founders of the Scrum framework. He conceived Scrum in the early 1990s with Jeff Sutherland to build software products in an empirical and iterative way. Throughout his career, Schwaber refined and promoted Scrum, helping to establish it as a leading agile development process. He has made significant contributions to the agile movement through publications, training organizations, and evangelizing how Scrum can help teams and businesses. Currently, Schwaber continues to advance Scrum through his work with Scrum.org.

1. Presented By: Rizwan Firdous
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“Scrum is a way for teams to work
together to develop a product.”
Ken Schewaber

2. Ken Schwaber- The Early Years
• Born on Mar 1945 in Wheaton,
Illinois US.
• Graduated from the Mechanical Engineering
U.S Merchant Marine Academy.
• Additional study in Computer Science
The University of Chicago.
• Additional study in Business
The University of California.

3. • Early in his career, Ken tried unsuccessfully to make waterfall
software project successfully.
• In 1990, he started using Scrum to build the software products.
• From 1995 to 2001 he tested out and refined Scrum.
• In 2001, he were amongst the 17 signatories created the Agile
Software Development Manifesto.
• Ken Schwaber has recently become more recognized with
achievements from the Scrum business development process.
Ken Schwaber- Quick View of Career

4. Ken Schwaber- The Founding Of Scrum
• Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland conceived the Scrum process in the early 90’s.
• Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland first co-presented Scrum in 1995.
• They codified Scrum in order to present it at the OOPSLA conference in Austin,
Texas (US) and published the paper “SCRUM Software Development Process”.

5. Ken Schwaber- Industry Contributions
• More than 30 years experienced of the software development industry as a
software developer project manager, product manager, industry
consultant.
• Ken has spent the almost his past 20 years developing Scrum and working
with the organizations around world to help them take advantage of it.
• In February 2001, He was amongst the 17 software development leaders
creating the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
• Following the Agile Manifesto, the Agile Alliance was founded with Ken
Schwaber being its first chairman.

6. Ken Schwaber- Industry Contributions
• In 2002, Ken Schwaber founded the Scrum Alliance with Mike Cohn and Esther
Derby, with Ken chairing the organization.
• Schwaber initially attempted to develop Scrum.org’s programs while part of the
Scrum Alliance.

7. Scrum Alliance End & New Beginning
• After a deep disagreement with the board regarding
assessments, certification, and a developer program, Ken
resigned from the Scrum Alliance in the fall of 2009.
• He founded then Scrum.org to further improve the quality
and effectiveness of Scrum, mainly through the Professional
Scrum series.
• With the first publication of the Scrum Guide in 2010, and its
incremental updates in 2011 and 2013, Jeff and Ken
established the globally recognized body of knowledge of
Scrum.

8. Ken Schwaber- Scrum.org
• Ken and Alex Armstrong, founded Scrum.org.
• This website is devoted to helping companies to
use the Scrum method to successfully implement
organization into their businesses.
• Ken Schwaber states that “Scrum is a way for
teams to work together to develop a product.”

9. • Ken realized that the benefits of Scrum are not limited to
software and product development.
• He has adapted this successful strategy for several other
industries including: finance, healthcare, higher
education and telecom.
• Ever since its first publication in 1995 up to now, Scrum
has been adopted by a vast amount of software
development companies around the world. It is today
recognized as the most applied framework for agile
software development. More than 1000 books have been
published on Scrum.
Ken Schwaber- Scrum

10. Ken Schwaber- Accomplishments
• Co-creator of Scrum
• President of Advanced Development Methods (ADM)
Company.
• Founder of the Agile Alliance.
• Responsible for founding the Scrum Alliance.
• Schwaber is one of the 17 initial signatories of the Agile
Manifesto.
• Schwaber is one of the leaders of the agile software
development movement.

11. Ken Schwaber- Published Papers
• They published the paper “SCRUM Software Development Process”.
• A Pattern Language for Software Development
• Reporting Scrum Project Progress to Executive Management
through Metrics

12. Ken Schwaber- Publications
• Agile Software Development with Scrum
(Series in Agile Software Development)
Oct 21, 2001
• Agile Project Management with Scrum
(Microsoft Professional)
Feb 21, 2004

13. • The Enterprise and Scrum
(Developer Best Practices)
Jun 23, 2007
• Software in 30 Days
Apr 5, 2012
Ken Schwaber- Publications

14. Ken Schwaber- Blogs
• Telling It Like It Is
Schwaber also currently operates a successful blog
called “Telling it Like It Is, The Ken Schwaber’s
Blog. His entire blog is dedicated to the business
world, and how any business can become fully
functional within a short amount of time. He writes
inspirational pieces that can help even the most
disorganized business to find structure and in
return, make a profit.

15. Ken Schwaber- Quotes
• “A manager's most important work is helping the people doing
the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any
impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them
more effective or productive. Then the organization can
capitalize on the fruits of their work.”
• “Scrum is a way for teams to work together to develop a
product.”
• “Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your
faults.”

16. Current
• Most recently, Ken is the founder of Scrum.Org, a credentialing
organization that offers Scrum classes, Scrum certifications and
assessments in Scrum skills.
• Over the last five years he has formalized Scrum, helped many
organizations successfully deploy products and systems using
Scrum, and co-authored Scrum, Agile Software Development with
Mike Beedle.

17. Current
• Today Schwaber runs Scrum.org, which provides Scrum
resources, training, assessments, and certifications for
Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers, Scrum Product
Owners, and organizations using Scrum.

18. For watching my presentation about Ken Schwaber.
I hope you learned something interesting.
Thank You