Zombies: (…) they are here, and their number is growing rapidly. Mindless, drooling herds of developers, testers, designers and others moaning ‘chaaaange’ and shambling around the building to all sorts of brainless Scrum-activities.
Symptoms of Zombie Scrum
Symptom #1: No beating heart
Symptom #2: No (desire for) contact with the outside world
Symptom #3: No emotional response to success or failure
Symptom #4: No drive to improve
Causes of Zombie Scrum
Cause #1: A bit too homegrown, or ‘Cargo Cult Scrum’
Cause #2: No urgency
Cause #3: Competing Values
Treating Zombie Scrum
Treatment #1: Become a Zombie-whisperer
Treatment #2: Introduce Healthy Scrum into the population
Treatment #3: Shake things up (don’t continue the stumble)
Treatment #4: Involve the broader Scrum Community
Author = Christiaan Verwijs
https://medium.com/the-liberators/the-rise-of-zombie-scrum-cd98741015d5