An improvement community (IC) is a group of individuals who join together to work collaboratively to improve the organization’s use of Scrum. An IC may form when individuals notice an item on the ETC’s improvement backlog and decide to work together to achieve that goal. Or an IC may form because individuals see and are passionate about an improvement opportunity that hasn’t made the ETC’s radar yet. IBM, for example, has five ICs, which are focused on test automation, continuous integration, test-driven development, the role of the product owner, and the general use of Scrum itself.
