This is the sort of historical revisionism and weak reporting that seriously pisses me off. Sutherland did not invent Scrum in the 80s, Scrum is not the founder of agile, there were 17 people involved, etc etc. That HBR is passing this along is seriously bad history/reporting 
ps wrote this in the article comments: This is the sort of historical revisionism and weak research that seriously pisses me off, me being one of the authors of the agile manifesto. Sutherland did not invent or use Scrum in the 80s, it was in the 90s, Scrum is not the founder...
of agile, there were 17 people involved, with diverse histories and origin stories. That HBR is passing this false history is seriously wrong. I have to write to correct you. This article is online, so Yes you can amend it. Do some research please. Alistair Cockburn, Co-author..
of the Agile Manifesto. ... ps please read "How I saved Agile and the Rest of the World" at web.archive.org/web/2017062610… for a proper expansion of this comment.
