Template Zombies and the Snowplow The term template zombies comes from the book Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Tom DeMarco et al. (Dorset House). The name says it all, but I’ll give you the authors’ definition: Template Zombie: The project team allows its work to be driven by templates instead of by the thought process necessary to deliver products. As simple as that template is, it gets abused quite a bit. I see people really struggle to force ideas into the template when they just don’t fit. Stories about backend services or security
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