Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (November 13, 2020) © 2021

  • Johannes Schartau
  • Christiaan Verwijs
  • Barry Overeem
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Title overview

Millions of professionals use Scrum. It's the worlds #1 approach to agile software development. Even so, by some estimates, over 70% of Scrum adoptions fall flat. Developers find themselves using Zombie Scrum processes that look like Scrum, but are slow, lifeless, and joyless. Scrums just not working for them.

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Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way. Humourous, visual, and extremely relatable, it offers practical approaches, exercises, and tools for escaping Zombie Scrum. Even if you're surrounded by skeptics, this book will be the antidote to help you build more of what users need, ship faster, improve more continuously, interact more successfully in any team, and feel a whole lot better about what you're doing. Suddenly, one day soon, you'll remember: that's why we adopted Scrum in the first place!

  • Learn how Zombie Scrum infects you, why it spreads, and how to inoculate yourself
  • Get closer to your stakeholders, and wake up to their understanding of value
  • Discover why Zombie teams can't learn, and what to do about it
  • Clear away the specific obstacles to real continuous improvement
  • Make self-managed teams real so people can behave like humans, not Zombies

Zombie Scrum Survival Guide is for Scrum Masters, Scrum practitioners, Agile coaches and leaders, and everyone who wants to transform Scrums promises into reality.

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • Chapter 2: First Aid Kit
  • Part I: (Zombie) Scrum
  • Chapter 3: A Primer on Zombie Scrum
  • Chapter 4: The Purpose of Scrum
  • Part II: Build What Stakeholders Need
  • Chapter 5: Symptoms and Causes
  • Chapter 6: Experiments
  • Part III: Ship It Fast
  • Chapter 7: Symptoms and Causes
  • Chapter 8: Experiments
  • Part IV: Improve Continuously
  • Chapter 9: Symptoms and Causes
  • Chapter 10: Experiments
  • Part V: Self-Organize
  • Chapter 11: Symptoms and Causes
  • Chapter 12: Experiments
  • Chapter 13: The Road to Recovery

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