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First Principles in Scrum: OpenClaw Scrum and Scrum@Scale

Jeff Sutherland

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for First Principles in Scrum: OpenClaw Scrum and Scrum@Scale: Create Trust at Machine Speed https://leanpub.com/firstprinciplesinscrumscrumandscrumscaleforopenclaw by Jeff Sutherland! 00:00 Introduction to First Principles in Scrum, OpenClaw & Scrum@Scale 00:19 Jeff Sutherland's background and the origins of Scrum 01:12 Fixing failing projects in banking with self-organizing teams 01:42 From Scrum@Scale to the global adoption of Scrum 02:22 Jeff's AI journey from Stanford in the 1970s to modern LLMs 04:09 AI startups, autonomous robots, and the inspiration behind Scrum 05:33 Creating Scrum: simple rules that build high-performance teams 06:18 From ChatGPT to AI-powered development teams 08:22 OpenClaw and the shift from AI pair programming to autonomous agents 09:29 Scrum@Scale as an operating system for AI-driven companies 09:50 The challenge of keeping up with AI's pace of change 11:52 How Scrum principles apply to autonomous AI agent teams 12:59 Self-organization, the edge of chaos, and maximum performance 13:28 Building faster, cheaper, and better AI companies 14:43 The biggest challenge: changing how people work 15:21 Why most companies are failing to benefit from AI 16:31 Training teams to work effectively with AI About the Book Openclaw Scrum is the first operating model that treats AI agents as first-class team members under empirical process control. Scrum@Scale, extended on first principles, is the only existing framework with the structural primitives (Scrum of Scrums, MetaScrum, EAT) to coordinate networks of human-plus-agent teams at enterprise scale. Most "AI transformations" will fail for the same reason most "agile transformations" failed: they substitute tooling and theater for empirical control. Openclaw Scrum is the corrective. This book can help Agile practitioners, Executives, and Coaches understand and implement future organizations of swarming agents. Practitioner: "Scrum, re-grounded in first principles for teams where AI agents do real work." Executive: "An empirical operating model for AI-augmented organizations — accountability, transparency, and learning velocity at scale." "Agile died of process theater. AI will kill it again unless we go back to first principles." About the Author Co-Creator of Scrum and Scrum@Scale and Signatory of the Agile Manifesto. Follow the author here! https://x.com/jeffsutherland Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): http://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-the-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #computerprogramming #businessandmanagement #scrum #leadershipagile #agileenterprise #enterprisemanagement #scrumprojectmanagement #productmanagement #teamwork