Impediments - Charlotte

These are the impediment the group identified today.

1. Culture, company politics
2. Missed requirements
3. Team motivation
4. Competing priorities
5. Lack of mgmt support
6. Insufficient expertise
7. Not enough senior support
8. Budget constraints
9. Lack of funding
10. Undefined requirements
11. Poor planning
12. Missed stakeholders
13. Poor training
14. Resources not allowed to focus
15. Requirement clarity
16. Lack of planning
17. Change controls (lack of)
18. Team not on the same page
19. Skill set
20. Lack of resources
21. Planning
22. No fun
23. Sponsorship
24. Not clear communication
25. Scope not right sized
26. Compressed testing
27. Lack of teamwork
28. Budget
29. Lack of management
30. Lack of testing
31. Documentation not defined
32. Non-agile team member
33. Unproductive meetings
34. Too many meetings
35. No collaboration, no feedback
36. Unreasonable expectations
37. Market changes
38. Over confidence
39. Changes identified but not communicated
40. Late change requests
41. Incorrect requirements
42. Compressed timeline
43. Disagreement on "process"
44. Incorrect estimates
45. Poor communicating team members
46. Unclear acceptance criteria
47. Unclear vision of customer

As stated many other places on this blog, we hope these lists encourage you and your team and your company to aggressive identify and aggressvely attack the impediments, one at a time.  And make life better for yourself, your team and the customers.