The Team Isn’t Making Progress
When watching a development team conduct a daily scrum, you’ll often notice tasks that are blocked—ones where the team isn’t making any progress. Sometimes it seems like these tasks are glued to the team board: they just won’t move. Even worse, the result of the daily scrum probably won’t address the blocked tasks.
A development team is accountable for their progress, and an important part of that is pointing out and tackling blockers and impediments as a team as soon as possible. When tasks and stories appear stuck and no one is talking, it’s time to get concerned about why the team isn’t speaking up. If team members simply aren’t aware that they can speak up, remind them that the whole point of the daily scrum ...
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