I recently became a Scrum Alliance Certified Team Coach. The process was simultaneously one of the most challenging and frustrating and helpful and rewarding things I’ve ever done. To me, saying that I’m proud to have earned this certification is still kind of funny. There is one thing I constantly…

Through our studies, we have found that a lack of true product ownership is one of the main causes of Zombie Scrum. This is puzzling as the Product Owner role as such is clearly described in the Scrum framework. However, you would be hard-pressed to find a company that comes…

The sad truth about Zombie Scrum is that you will simultaneously be very alone and very dependent on other people. You simply won’t be able to make any lasting impact on your own. …

Working in a Zombie Scrum environment can be an incredible challenge. In addition to all the structural work that you face the most exhausting aspect is usually the negative, numbing mindset. Zombie Scrum teams have given up hope and are often caught in a spiral of negativity. There are many…

One of the most striking symptoms of Zombie Scrum is the general lack of motivation. There’s no motivation to succeed and — even worse — there’s not even enough motivation for a full-scale riot! Getting stuck in mediocrity is often more dangerous than honest failure. But how does Zombie Scrum…