Public Impediments - Charlotte March 2014

The group came up with these impediments.

1. People issues
2. Distractions (multitasking)
3. Lack of resources
4. Arbitrary long time estimates
5. Lack of feedback
6. Black box projects
7. Dishonesty
8. Management constraints
9. Team too big or too small
10. No clear roles
11. No funding
12. Unrealistic expectations, time or $
13. Team improperly formed
14. Too many impediments (main cause of failure)
15. Inexperience (wrong skills)
16. EGO
17. Poor listening
18. Unchesiveness
19. (lack of) localization support
20. No direction
21. Stubborn people not aligned with Team
22. Budgeting not clear
23. Shareholders having diverse interests
24. Lack leadership
25. Teams not talking to associated teams
26. Lack of resources dedicated to Team
27. People turnover
28. Performance not measured - no data
29. Real product owner is not identified
30. No clear process / product owner
31. Cross-purposed stakeholders
32. Lack of stakeholder buy-in / support
33. Upstream / downstream dependencies

We hope this list helps your team get more creative about the impediments.
We are a strong advocate of a public impediment list.