Impediments - Raleigh-Durham Feb 2014

I really want to advocate again that we must make the impediments visible in a public impediment list.  And never stop aggressively attacking them.  If you prefer to call it 'our list of things to improve on', I won't arrest you.

Here's the list the group made in this class.  They are not on order, they are not framed the same way, there will probably be some redundancies. These are in random order.

1. Team commitment to Scrum
2. Singular voice from PO
3. Team commitment to project
4. Unqualified Team members
5. Quality agile process training (Gee, I hope they were not talking about me? (smile))
6. (lack of) collocation
7. Finalizing sprint work / goals
8. Communication / collaboration
9. Definition of Done / of Ready
10. Replacing communication with documents
11. Non-value process for process' sake
12. Unclear requirements
13. Unrealistic or undefined scope
14. Clear definition of done (lack of)
15. Misunderstood requirements
16. Well defined sprint - days
17. Lack of team commitment
18. No vision or backlog of work
19. Unrealistic expectations
20. No support of team
21. Clear goal each sprint (lack of)
22. No unified team or stakeholders
23. (No) realistic expectations
24. Lack of senior leadership commitment
25. Actual list of impediments
26. Overall goal / delivery
27. Scope creep
28. No idea of what 'done' means
29. Self goals over project / team goals
30. Poor leadership
31. Resource constraints
32. No single voice (I think it was of requirements to team, eg, PO was not really there)
33. Expanded teams skills (need training)
34. No shared vision