Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, Schartau Johannes, Verwijs Christiaan, Overeem Barry

Barry, Christiaan, and Johannes have done a magnificent job of accumulating successful experiences and sharing their inspiring stories in this very practical book. They dont shy away from telling it like it is, which is why their proposals are always as useful as they are grounded in reality.
--Henri Lipmanowicz, cofounder, Liberating Structures

Millions of professionals use Scrum. Its 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.

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. Humorous, visual, and extremely relatable, it offers practical approaches, exercises, and tools for escaping Zombie Scrum. Even if youre 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 youre doing. Suddenly, one day soon, youll remember: thats 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 cant 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