Fixing Your Scrum

So Many Impediments, So Little Time

Here’s a scenario that illustrates another anti-pattern we often see: The Scrum master isn’t effectively dealing with impediments that are beyond the team’s capabilities, and these impediments are growing into blockers that prevent the team from delivering a product increment by the end of the sprint.

The development team has raised concerns multiple times about the following issues:

• A test server has been down for two weeks.

• The staging environment doesn’t mirror the production environment, but the DevOps team is too busy to deal with it.

• The organization is requiring that code reviews be performed by people outside of the development team, and the team has lost time waiting for other teams to complete these ...