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Are you in a Scrum Feature Factory?
Feature Factories and Zombie Scrum are just two terms that describe symptoms of a Scrum team that went wrong.
But why are there so many Scrum Feature Factories out there? Why are so many developers so dissatisfied with the Scrum process and the Scrum framework, while on the other hand so many developers are Scrum fanatics and love Scrum and the agile world?
I think the main reason why Feature Factories and Zombie Scrum exist in companies is that those companies are doing Scrum for the wrong reasons.
Start With Why and ask Why.
Simon Shinek, in his book “Start with Why”, promotes the idea that the why should always be asked before anything is done. The team can only work with a focus on a goal when the why is clear.
Often Scrum is introduced in companies for the wrong reasons. Management wants more flexibility and faster release cycles, i.e. a shorter time to market, but does not question the why.
What is the point of bringing a product to market faster, which is unstable and error-prone, and does not meet the user’s needs?
The fact is, introducing Scrum into teams that have been working for years with legacy code on monolithic structures and are embedded in Tayloristic organizational structures just to gain speed rarely leads to the desired result.
