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The Rise Of Zombie Scrum: Symptoms, causes and what you can do about it

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

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Introducing the Zombie Scrum Symptom Checker

Is your team suffering from Zombie Scrum? And if so, what can you do to improve? Do you wonder how other teams work with Scrum? How many members they have? What the usual length of a Sprint is? Is Scrum really helping teams deliver value to stakeholders faster and making them happier as a result? Find out with the first version of the Free Zombie Scrum Symptoms Checker.

The mission of our app “Our mission with this app is to use an empirical approach to better understand how teams and organizations work with Scrum, what it makes possible for them, what enables or impedes their success and how to better support them.“

Other content:
Based on a scientific approach
Receive your team’s profile
Open-source data and replication
Next steps for our research
Give it a try!

Author = Christiaan Verwijs (Scrum.org)

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/introducing-zombie-scrum-symptom-checker

Fight Zombie Scrum!
Link to the Free Online Tool to Diagnose your team

Author = The Liberators

https://survey.zombiescrum.org