Questions tagged [impediment]

For questions about impediments that hinder the progress of the project or interfere with working on product implementation.

Every project has a lot of obstacles that interfere with reaching the goal. “Impediment” is a synonym term.

Here is an example from within Scrum Framework. For example:

  • The Scrum Master should:

"Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress";

  • One of the three questions during Daily Scrum is:

"Do I see any impediment that prevents me or the Development Team from meeting the Sprint Goal?"

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How to track impediments in SCRUM?

This has been asked several times already but none of the answers fully convince me. We are an R&D team doing some support from time to time. Most of the support work can be included in capacity of the team so that the Focus Factor can be set…
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Scrum Master Responsibility : Removing Impediment for the team vs being a middle man

As per the scrum guide, the scrum master's responsibility towards the team is to remove the roadblocks. But what extent should he go? I am not sure if the SM should go any extent and (maybe even) become the middle man and do all the communication..…
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How can I help a member of a scrum team estimate better?

Follow up question from here: How to efficiently manage a Scrum team when one member is much less productive? One of my developers is having trouble estimating his work. For the past few weeks he has committed to work, and once stuck in is not able…
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Resolving impediments caused by other teams

I am a ScrumMaster for a development team. We have an impediment which will be resolved by an engineer on a different team. Does anyone have any tips or techniques for speeding this along. Should I just ask this engineer how things are going? They…
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Can task be impeded under its assignee

Let's say I'm working on task 1. I found bug and created new task for that. Let's say task 2. Does it make sense if I impede task 1 under my name?
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