Impediment List: Toronto

We just completed a CSM course in Toronto.

Here are the impediments they identified, although some are phrased in a positive way. Eg, for some you need to add “…, lack of.”

This list, as with others here, supports the idea of a public impediment list.  The real issue is ‘fixing impediments regularly and aggressively.”  But we find that starts with a prioritized list of impediments.  And we attack them one at a time.  Single piece continuous flow, as the Lean guys propose.

Here’s their list (not in order):

1. Small teams (<5) & timelines [I think the first notion is that the teams are too small now, and I think this person is right that Scrum will work better for them with a Team size closer to 7.]
2. Making time to meet
3. Changing requirements
4. Task breakdown (poor)
5. Being in the office at the same time (not now)
6. Compressed timeline
7. Admitting we need agile or a Proj Mgmt solution (we haven’t yet)
8. Tight timelines
9. Technical challenges
10. Lack of people with diverse and required skills
11. Waterfall/Agile hybrid
12. Lack of people for given schedule
13. Delays (outside the team that mean the team will ‘fail’)
14. Lack of flexibility
15. Poor communication
16. Too much planning, not enough execution
17. Old fashioned technology
18. Lack of people
19. Over budget
20. Lack of proper planning
21. Lack of approach
22. Lack of customer feedback
23. Incorrect requirements delivered
24. Lack feedback
25. Lack of detail in scope or requirements
26. Lack skills
27. Too ambitious feature list
28. High level design
29. Lack of collaboration between teams
30. Poor scheduling
31. Too complex
32. Inadequate testing
33. Lack of leadership

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