Questions tagged [impediment]
For questions about impediments that hinder the progress of the project or interfere with working on product implementation.
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Time & Material project contract - how to handle blockers during project execution
Imagine you are a consulting company and you have T&M contract based project.
You aligned with the customer to provide consultants to work on a 4days/week schedule.
The project is facing an issue ...
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Blockers, impediments & dependencies
I am finding that blocker is an emotionally loaded word. Impediments and dependencies are not much better.
Invariably there is always a person at the end of a blocker and no-one wants to be "...
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What are the first steps while restructuring a project? [closed]
As a part of a course I am currently taking at university, we were given a report of an imaginary project that is currently going wrong and was put on hold.
While reading the report and analysing some ...
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What if an item requires additional work from an earlier stage in Kanban?
Let's suppose that an item gets to some stage on a kanban board and then it is discovered that additional work is required from an earlier stage. What do we do?
We can't move items backward in Kanban. ...
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Scrum Master Responsibility : Removing Impediment for the team vs being a middle man
As per the scrum guide, the scrum master's responsibility towards the team is to remove the roadblocks. But what extent should he go? I am not sure if the SM should go any extent and (maybe even) ...
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Can task be impeded under its assignee
Let's say I'm working on task 1. I found bug and created new task for that. Let's say task 2. Does it make sense if I impede task 1 under my name?
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Small story got bigger, what to do with the big bit?
Under Scrum, we have a story which was estimated to be quite short. Once the story was picked up by a developer, it turned out that a significant amount of technical preparation is required, and this ...
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How can I help a member of a scrum team estimate better?
Follow up question from here:
How to efficiently manage a Scrum team when one member is much less productive?
One of my developers is having trouble estimating his work. For the past few weeks he ...
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Secondary team block primary team due to lack of quality-driven development and WIP limits
Where I work, there are two teams of developers.
Team A use Kanban and consider quality non-negotiable. They are responsible for developing the client-facing website, part of which contains an ...
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How to track impediments in SCRUM?
This has been asked several times already but none of the answers fully convince me.
We are an R&D team doing some support from time to time. Most of the support work can be included in capacity ...
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Resolving impediments caused by other teams
I am a ScrumMaster for a development team. We have an impediment which will be resolved by an engineer on a different team.
Does anyone have any tips or techniques for speeding this along. Should I ...
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