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Impediment Hunting
It’s commonly accepted in the Agile community that addressing impediments is a critical part of creating high performing teams. However, in the day-to-day grind, project leaders and team members don’t always recognize the things that are getting in their way. How do we help ourselves and our teams see the barriers to our work?
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I have a confession to make: I have a hard time recognizing impediments to my projects. I know I should be able to see them, but somehow they pass right by me every day without my noticing them. It’s particularly embarrassing because identifying and resolving impediments is in my job description as a scrum master.
But I know I’m not alone — I think there are lots of project leaders who don’t know how to recognize impediments. Actually, those of us with this sort of “blindness” tend to clamber over the challenges in life's little obstacle course without out even recognizing that impediments are there. I even have a name for this affliction: impedimentia. I would argue that my fellow impedimentia sufferers and I are working really hard to …
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