Impediments – Charlotte Sept 2014

The following impediments were identified:

1. Egos
2. No proper test environment
3. Bad data
4. Process failure
5. external market
6. Lack of coordination
7. Unrealistic timeframe
8. Change Mgmt
9. Org changes
10. Changes in technology
11. Budget
12. Customer communication (lack of)
13. Too many defects
14. Waterfall “hangover”
15. No accountability
16. Management interference
17. Bad product owner
18. Lack of structure
19. Lack timeline
20. Ru out of money
21. Unclear scope & vision
22. Change of strategy
23. Testing
24. Lack of buy-in
25. No proper acceptance criteria
26. Planning (lack of)
27. Not following agile practices
28. New technologies
29. Lack of skill sets
30. Poor requirements
31. Scope creep
32. Lack of clear goals
33. Story (stories) not well defined
34. Changing priorities
35. Requirements change
36. Bad arch

Some maybe redundant, but they were from several firms.
I am a strong advocate of a public impediment list.  And working the list, one item at a time.