Impediments – Charlotte – Oct 2014

This the list that this class identified:

  1. Indecisive
  2. Little stakeholder engagement
  3. Started development late
  4. LOB changed strategic direction
  5. Assumptions
  6. Lack of Test Environment & Data
  7. Undefined risk
  8. Lack of communication
  9. Missing requirements
  10. Too many bugs
  11. No DOD
  12. Time constraints (this is not yet a actionable impediments…but an issue for analysis IMO)
  13. Backing into dates
  14. Unreasonable deadlines
  15. Poor leadership
  16. Politics
  17. Loss of team members
  18. Opaque decision-making
  19. No standards and practices
  20. Third parties
  21. No team – everyone for themselves
  22. Change
  23. Scope creep
  24. No mitigation strategy
  25. Poorly defined success criteria
  26. Bad or no acceptance criteria
  27. No business face time
  28. Uncooperative team members
  29. Laziness*
  30. Lack of clear communication
  31. Poor documentation
  32. Difference in down time
  33. Additional server & DBAs (lack of)
  34. Product delivered on time with fewer defects (lack of)
  35. Cloning test envronment
  36. Team location distributed
  37. New requirements
  38. Bad requirements (or changing, in the waterfall model)
  39. Requirements never done
  40. Poor grooming
  41. No plan
  42. Changing needs
  43. Not tested properly
  44. QA too little too late
  45. Poor testing/QA
  46. Disengaged product owner
  47. Bad attitude
  48. Competing priorities
  49. Loss of funding
  50. Epics as stories
  51. Change priorities
  52. Poor quality
  53. Not focused team members
  54. Organizational dysfunction
  55. Bad coding practices
  56. Lack of full participation
  57. Incompetent people
  58. Single points of failure
  59. Technical solution determined by Business was not achievable by Technology
  60. Shifting business priorities
  61. Decentralized execution teams working in silos
  62. Needed expertise not available
  63. Budget
  64. Not enough time (again, an issue but not clearly an impediment itself…needs further analysis IMO)
  65. Non-team players
  66. Mis-managed timelines
  67. Budget overruns
  68. Poor grasp of requirements
  69. Multiple priorities
  70. Complete requirements (lack of)

See earlier lists for further discussion.

 

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