Zombie Scrum Survival Guide

9 Symptoms and Causes

Everything’s better with zombies—NOT.

—Lily Herne, Deadlands

In This Chapter

• Learn what continuous improvement means.

• Explore the most common symptoms and causes that make it hard to improve.

• Discover how healthy Scrum Teams have embraced continuous improvement.

An Experience from the Field

The Development Team has gathered, unenthusiastically, for their Sprint Retrospective. They grumble about the time it takes. One developer sums up how the rest feel when he says, “What’s the point, really?” But since they agreed to give this Scrum thing a try, they resolve to make the best of it.

The door flies open and in rushes their Scrum Master, Jessica. “Sorry!” she begins. “The Sprint Retrospective for one of my other teams ...