4 The Purpose of Scrum

Often, a school is your best bet—perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

—Max Brooks,The Zombie Survival Guide

In This Chapter

  • Discover how Zombie Scrum compares to Scrum as it is intended.

  • Understand the underlying purpose of the Scrum Framework, and how Scrum is all about navigating complex problems and reducing risk.

In our frantic search for an antidote to Zombie Scrum, we looked on the other side of stickies, behind whiteboards, and under our beds. We studied the symptoms and tried tracing them back to their origin. In a nutshell, when talking about the causes of Zombie Scrum, the discussion usually ends with the questions “What are the reasons people have for using the Scrum ...

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